From: "Suki Venkat, [TnQ]" <[email protected]> > There is already an indirect way to do latex2sla: > > (1) latex->RTF (see http://latex2rtf.sourceforge.net/) > (2) RTF->SXW (use openoffice writer) > This can be turned into command-line rtf2sxw utility. > (I think there is also tex4ht tool that even can do direct conversion > sxw format). > Openoffice SXW format can then be opened imported as text-stream using > Get Text within OpenOffice. Actually latex2rtf is rather poor, and is quite difficult to install, even, and I have tried over several years. Apropos of widows and orphans it seems to me that slovenly habits got started not simply with laziness but with the inevitable effects of the old mechanical typewriters. Since you had to retype every page to change anything that took more than a word or a line to correct, nobody could care about widows and orphans especially since the typewriter used monospace fonts. With computers this all changed. Now when attention is not paid to proper layout, you cannot imagine how easy it is to look for pages and seem to see nothing on them and so leave the last page behind. Then one is explaining something and lacks the true conclusion. Moral: I think THREE line ought to go on every page at least. They say the Knuth algorithm for justification and paragraph formatting used in TeX / LaTeX is the best in use anywhere. Is Scribus' as good? By the way: it used to be a 'typewriter' was the person who wrote on the 'typewriting machine.' (Also, an 'employee' was known at first as an employe (accent e').).
Bart Alberti
