[OS X TeX] tex, pdf, and doc

[Alex Hamann]

Thanks to Adam, Bruno and Claus for the quick answer. I tried  
latex2rtf  on my document (article with bibliography, no equations  
and no special fonts) and am surprised by the pretty nice outcome.  
The only thing not entirely satisfaying is  the bibliography - but  
that seems to be comparably easy to correct (or I should venture  
deeper into the latex2rtf documentation).
The OpenOffice-solution sounds interesting as well (esp. since I am  
already using for quick papers). I guess the fact that I do not have  
to deal with equations makes everything a lot  easier.

Just out of curiosity: I saw the i-Package wvware MS Word Conversion.  
Anybody got some experience with that? (even though that would do the  
opposite operation I was trying to do)

Claus: I am afraid that won´t work... historians are quite  
conservative (at least those I have to deal with). Just to explain  
why I have pdf- and not doc-format (LaTex??? What the heck is that??)  
Would be an interesting but probably hopeless project.

Alex

Am 04.09.2006 um 17:38 schrieb Adam R. Maxwell:

>
> On Sep 4, 2006, at 08:20, Bruno Voisin wrote:
>
>> Le 4 sept. 06 à 16:45, Alex Hamann a écrit :
>>
>>> I guess this might be an issue that has been raised a couple of  
>>> times previously, but I could not find a satisfying answer so far.
>>> I have to hand in papers for a given projekt. While I am - not  
>>> surprisingly -  the only one of the group who has ever heard of  
>>> Tex, the advisor wants to bundle our files to a single file.  
>>> Therefore he wants me to use the doc-format. Is there any way to  
>>> achieve an output (or to convert it) so that I fulfill this  
>>> requirement? All the solutions I found are either highly  
>>> unsatisfaying  (Acrobat, save as... .doc), or require other  
>>> commercial programs that I trust even less.
>>
>> Yes this is an issue that has been raised a few times already. As  
>> far as I remember the conclusions of the discussions were: either  
>> to convert from LaTeX to RTF using latex2rtf (it's a command-line  
>> utility, there's an i-Package for it), then read the RTF with MS  
>> Word; or to convert from LaTeX to HTML to Word (using either  
>> latex2html, TeX4ht or Tth). In both cases you're most likely to  
>> have to retype the formulae in Word, as they will be lost during  
>> during the conversions.
>
> The latex2rtf program will successfully convert many equations to  
> editable Word fields (good thing, too, or my advisor wouldn't have  
> let me use LaTeX).
>
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