From: comellini <enr...@fa...> - 2008-11-27 16:30:42
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Ihave written the annexed document, copied from Wiki, in Word and I have saved it as TEX. When I have opened the document by by MikTex I expected to read it in clear. What I got instead was the same document where all the symbols "\" were transformed into EQUATION. I could not open the TEX document by MikTex Viewer because it is not a DVI document. Where I was wrong ? Do I miss some software ? Thank you for your attention. Enrico |
From: Cornelius C. N. <no...@it...> - 2008-11-27 20:38:56
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On Thu, 27 Nov 2008, comellini wrote: > Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 17:30:33 +0100 > From: comellini <enr...@fa...> > > Ihave written the annexed document, copied from Wiki, in Word > and I have saved it as TEX. When I have opened the document by by > MikTex I expected to read it in clear. What I got instead was > he same document where all the symbols "\" were transformed > into EQUATION. I could not open the TEX document by MikTex > Viewer because it is not a DVI document. Where I was wrong ? > Do I miss some software ? Thank you for your attention. Enrico I am pretty sure I misunderstood something in what you write; somehow it all sounds gibberish to me. 1) How did you get a WORD document from Wiki ? Text that you see in Wiki (what Web browser did you use for reading that?) is usually in HTML (HyperText Markup Language), and you'll never get a WORD file from that by simple copying - did you use some other software package than a simple copy to obtain that ? 2) If you did have a WORD document, renaming the suffix from ".doc" to ".tex" doesn't do anything to the file except to rename it; if that's what you did, you completely confused any subsequent software that infers contents structure from the file name suffix (as most programs do); so you shouldn't be surprised if everything goes haywire. 3) WORD and TeX are two VERY different text processing systems: to call them `incompatible' would be a monstrous understatement. So you better not mix them at all (their philosophy is simply TOO different!) 4) Which source file did you actually feed to MiKTeX ( MikTeX?? which program in MikTeX: TeX, LaTeX, dvips, or whatever? Mind you: MikTeX is not a program, but a file system! 5) the above points (1 - 4) sound so weird to me that I am quite sure I misunderstood something grossly. So my only advice is: a) state clearly what you intend to achieve, b) do things one step at a time, describing each step to us clearly, including error files produced by whatever software you used at each step. Then perhaps you can get some help from this group. ccn. -- ................................................................. Prof.Dr. Cornelius C. Noack Phones: Inst. f. Theor. Physik FB 1 office : +49 (421) 218-2427 Universit"at Bremen secretary: -2422 Otto-Hahn-Allee Fax : -4869 D - 28334 Bremen home : +49 (421) 34 22 36 Fax: 346 7872 E-mail: noack at itp.uni-bremen.de or ccnoack at mailaps.org WWW-page: www.itp.uni-bremen.de/~noack ................................................................. |
From: andrea l. <arl...@ya...> - 2008-11-28 00:43:50
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Still if you manage to have a word file that looks fine to you, you can save it as rtf and then use some package in the tex-archive (http://www.tug.org/utilities/texconv/rtf2latex.html ) to convert it. I tried once, conversion is not always smooth --it depends on how tough is your doc for the software to interpret-- but you get most of the work done, with just detailed to be worked out. Andrea ________________________________ Da: Cornelius C. Noack <no...@it...> A: A place for MiKTeX users to discuss MiKTeX related questions. <mik...@li...> Inviato: Giovedì 27 novembre 2008, 21:38:25 Oggetto: Re: [MiKTeX] Question On Thu, 27 Nov 2008, comellini wrote: > Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 17:30:33 +0100 > From: comellini <enr...@fa...> > > Ihave written the annexed document, copied from Wiki, in Word > and I have saved it as TEX. When I have opened the document by by > MikTex I expected to read it in clear. What I got instead was > he same document where all the symbols "\" were transformed > into EQUATION. I could not open the TEX document by MikTex > Viewer because it is not a DVI document. Where I was wrong ? > Do I miss some software ? Thank you for your attention. Enrico I am pretty sure I misunderstood something in what you write; somehow it all sounds gibberish to me. 1) How did you get a WORD document from Wiki ? Text that you see in Wiki (what Web browser did you use for reading that?) is usually in HTML (HyperText Markup Language), and you'll never get a WORD file from that by simple copying - did you use some other software package than a simple copy to obtain that ? 2) If you did have a WORD document, renaming the suffix from ".doc" to ".tex" doesn't do anything to the file except to rename it; if that's what you did, you completely confused any subsequent software that infers contents structure from the file name suffix (as most programs do); so you shouldn't be surprised if everything goes haywire. 3) WORD and TeX are two VERY different text processing systems: to call them `incompatible' would be a monstrous understatement. So you better not mix them at all (their philosophy is simply TOO different!) 4) Which source file did you actually feed to MiKTeX ( MikTeX?? which program in MikTeX: TeX, LaTeX, dvips, or whatever? Mind you: MikTeX is not a program, but a file system! 5) the above points (1 - 4) sound so weird to me that I am quite sure I misunderstood something grossly. So my only advice is: a) state clearly what you intend to achieve, b) do things one step at a time, describing each step to us clearly, including error files produced by whatever software you used at each step. Then perhaps you can get some help from this group. ccn. -- ................................................................. Prof.Dr. Cornelius C. Noack Phones: Inst. f. Theor. Physik FB 1 office : +49 (421) 218-2427 Universit"at Bremen secretary: -2422 Otto-Hahn-Allee Fax : -4869 D - 28334 Bremen home : +49 (421) 34 22 36 Fax: 346 7872 E-mail: noack at itp.uni-bremen.de or ccnoack at mailaps.org WWW-page: www.itp.uni-bremen.de/~noack ................................................................. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ MiKTeX-Users mailing list MiK...@li... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/miktex-users |