<br>That sounds useful, William! That's exactly what I need: lots of crappily formatted word stuff -> cleaned up word stuff -> input for LaTeX -> nicely formatted document! Sinds, however, the majority of this process it is almost certainly going to be off-topic for this list, do you mind if I contact you off-list about this?
<br><br>Cheers,<br>Yuri.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/21/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">William Adams</b> <<a href="mailto:will.adams@frycomm.com">will.adams@frycomm.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Aug 21, 2006, at 2:43 PM, Yuri Robbers wrote:<br><br>> I'm starting to think it might be less work to print out the whole<br>> lot (in as far as the printer prints what is shown on the screen:<br>> WYSIWYG doesn't work over different keymaps) and type it in again
<br>> in LaTeX by hand. Suggestions, anyone?<br><br>No, don't do that.<br><br>Craft a WordBASIC macro and toolbar set which will allow you to<br>format based on a paragraph's content, and which includes an button<br>to delete all formatting. (You may need to include hitting the
<br>Command/Control Shift F9 key to convert field code fields to text).<br><br>Optionally you can include a search-replace for specific characters<br>to get them formatted as desired --- I do this with a journal here at<br>
work once or twice a month, converting a several MB, ~150--200 pg.<br>Word .doc to a styled document which can then be paged into a<br>~90--120 pg. journal in Quark (or LaTeX) in less than 13 or 14 hours.<br><br>William<br>
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