[OS X TeX] advice on converting word w/math symbols to TeX

David Derbes loki at uchicago.edu
Fri Jun 6 22:40:38 CEST 2008


There is a product that will convert PC Word documents to LaTeX,  
called Word2TeX, from Chiklis Software. You'll need a Windows machine,  
or be running Windows on your Intel Mac.

David Derbes
U of Chicago Lab Schools

On Jun 6, 2008, at 3:05 PM, Rene Borgella wrote:

> Hi everyone:
>
> It's been a while since I have posted, but I've got a problem now  
> that I can't figure out on my own and thought I'd see if someone  
> here may have some advice.
>
> We've got a TeX document that we are assembling using TeXShop with  
> the MacTeX packages.  Unfortunately, one of the larger pieces that  
> we need to include was written in Word 2004 for Mac.  The document  
> is text with some numbers and symbols, but what I am mostly  
> concerned about are the subscripts.  The subscripts are words and  
> greek  symbols (psi, phi, etc.).
>
> Any recommendations for a good way to convert this kind of stuff,  
> please?
>
> thanks in advance!
>
> René
>
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