From: Martin V. <mar...@hu...> - 2001-04-19 06:27:13
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On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 11:45:46AM -0400, Eric Thompson wrote: > From: Eric Thompson <th...@rp...> > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3 i686; en-US; 0.8.1) > X-Accept-Language: en > To: wvw...@li... > Subject: [Wvware-devel] status of x to word? > Errors-To: wvw...@li... > X-BeenThere: wvw...@li... > X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.3 > Precedence: bulk > List-Help: <mailto:wvw...@li...?subject=help> > List-Post: <mailto:wvw...@li...> > List-Subscribe: <http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wvware-devel>, > <mailto:wvw...@li...?subject=subscribe> > List-Id: <wvware-devel.lists.sourceforge.net> > List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wvware-devel>, > <mailto:wvw...@li...?subject=unsubscribe> > List-Archive: <http://lists.sourceforge.net/archives//wvware-devel/> > Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 11:45:46 -0400 > > Hi- > I was wondering what the status (if any) of converting from X to word > is? I think we all agree that having one doc (in TeX) and being able to > convert to word (and everything else) would just plain rock. Like the holy grail of perverted alchemy, transmuting gold to lead :-) > I'm currently writing portions of a report but everyone else is using word. Ah, is Rensselaer that M$-infested? I had a different impression. > Is there any existing way to convert from LaTeX to word? or from pdf or > from html? There is code in wvWare for outputting to Word 97 format -- Dom wrote this -- but I know nothing about this and doubt that it would take LaTeX input directly. You could try the route over HTML. Word produces HTML of a kind and perhaps it might be persuaded to accept yours... I once used LaTeX2RTF (or whatever it was called, there are several in circulation) with some manual cleanup. > I'd like to contribute to any of this and to the wvcleanLatex project > but it's going to have to wait until the summer (coming up fast). > BTW: is the (ultimate) goal of wvcleanLatex to conserve the formatting > that the user used in the word file? or make the new doc use Latex's > layout conventions? The latter, mostly. The idea with wvCleanLatex is to produce a "cleaner" LaTeX than what a literal translation of the Word document would give. The problem is that wvLatex produces a LaTeX document with detailed formatting information on every paragraph, even if it has the default format. It becomes very cluttered and un-LaTeX-like. wvCleanLatex tries to address this problem by as much as possible just leaving this detailed formatting mark-up away, so you get a relatively clean document almost the way a person with a LaTeX background would write it. The price for this is of course a less-than-faithful rendering of the format, which is often acceptable. It usually looks better, loads easier into LyX (one design objective!) and is easier to continue to work on. > thanks for any info- > eric > > > _______________________________________________ > Wvware-devel mailing list > Wvw...@li... > http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wvware-devel > Martin -- Martin Vermeer mar...@hu... Helsinki University of Technology Department of Surveying P.O. Box 1200, FIN-02015 HUT, Finland :wq |