* Peter Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070926 00:35]: > If you write in latex you can always convert to RTF via latex2rtf, which in > my experience works excellently. If needed, it is no big deal to convert > this to word format. It is definitely worth the effort to learn latex.
This afternoon, out of curiosity, I installed latex2rtf and ran it on a typical document of the variety which I routinely produce. The document has a header, a footer, page numbers, two columns, and footnotes. The resulting RTF document was crude to the point of being laughable, and was unusable. I then spent an hour or so with Google, searching for alternative approaches. The most promising seems to be first to convert from LaTeX to HTML, and then to convert from HTML to M$ Word .doc format. In previous experimentation, I determined that, for the type of documents I create, HeVeA is by far the best solution for converting from LaTeX to HTML. The header detail cannot be reproduced in HTML, and the output is in a single column, but these losses are insignificant for my application. HeVeA is marvelous in its handling of footnotes and the table of contents. And HeVeA has been carefully designed for compatibility with LaTeX, so there is no need to maintain parallel versions (LaTeX and HTML) of my source documents. So now the problem becomes how to convert the HTML produced by HeVeA into RTF or another format which M$ Word can read -- preferably within the Debian environment, and preferably with open-source software. In another hour searching with Google, I came across only one potential solution. RLH -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]