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latex2rtf converter

this page last updated on Jan. 22, 2008

latex2rtf, written in C.

Converts LaTeX equations to Word's formula fields (EQ fields) or images. (Anyone who wants and is able to implement conversion to equation editor objects please contact me (texconvfaq "at" gmx.de).)
The default is conversion to formula fields. These generally display the equations in a reasonable quality. If in Word you double-click on a formula field, it will be converted to an equation editor object, but often with really bad result (depending on which constructs are contained in the equation).
Conversion to images requires a TeX installation, ImageMagick, and Ghostscript.

References are converted to field functions which must be updated after loading the resulting rtf file into Word (mark complete document and press F9).

Still there are drawbacks in the conversion. In fact, don't expect any LaTeX-file to be converted like you want, don't expect it to be converted without errors or warnings, and: don't even expect it to be converted at all, since LaTeX2rtf is at most at a very experimental stage. LaTeX2rtf is known to have a lot of bugs. In fact we could state that there are some special cases, where a LaTeX-file can be translated to RTF satisfactorily by LaTeX2rtf.
-- This was sort of disclaimer, ok? Ok!

C-source and makefiles (compiles on Unix with gcc; MS-DOS/Windows with gcc; and Macintosh with the DropUnix environment) as well as executables for MS-DOS (compatible with win95, win98, winME, nt4.0, win2000, winXP) and Macintosh are available from http://sourceforge.net/projects/latex2rtf/ (external link).

A stable but not always the most recent release is also available from CTAN, directory .../support/latex2rtf
(the ... stands for a host specific base directory, which often is either "/pub/tex" or "/tex-archive").

We still seek for people joining us as maintainer or developer. If you are interested, contact me (texconvfaq "at" gmx.de).

Program Copyright:

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANT-ABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

Note that this Copyright note only applies to the changes made to get the actual version. The older versions have their own Copyright policy stated in their distribution.

History:

In 1994 the first Version of LaTeX2rtf was written by a group of students of the Viena University supervised by Ralf Schlatterbeck. They took up a LaTeX parser and added most of the functionality to the program. In 1995 work continued with a second group of students. The result was LaTeX2rtf Version 1.5.

Unfortunately, two different persons started further development of that program, not knowing of each other:

In 1997, Daniel Taupin started updating this converter. He added e.g. the feature to convert equations to bitmaps by invoking the TeX engine. However this required the emTeX distribution (for DOS) which is no longer supported.
In 1998, Georg Lehner found the reference to the original LaTeX2rtf on this webpage and added some functionality. His work resulted in version 1.8aa. Unfortunately he did not know about Daniel's developments.

In 2001, Scott Prahl started to make some significant enhancements, also including many of Daniel's additions. He is still working on it. So this page is about Georg's and Scott's version. Latest stable release is 1.9.19 and includes all of the features of Daniel's version.

Temporarily I (Wilfried Hennings) feel responsible for coordinating the exchange of development information. But we are still seeking for a person who can act as coordinator of future development, and we also need a person to take over the development. Anyone feeling able to do that please contact me by email to texconvfaq "at" gmx.de.

We got a project initiated at sourceforge.net which aids in further development. Visit its homepage at http://latex2rtf.sourceforge.net/ (external link) or its project page at http://sourceforge.net/projects/latex2rtf/ (external link).

it must remain intact and the contents unchanged; if you'd like to have something changed, contact me (texconvfaq "at" gmx.de). Reformatting (e.g. from HTML to some other presentation format) is granted as long as the contents are unchanged.
you may NOT ask money for it except a reasonable cost for media and distribution

Please also note the disclaimer.

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