[OS X TeX] Scripting

[Bruce D'Arcus]

I had the same question.  I started to do this using Visual Basic, with Word's record macro function (recording a series of find/replace commands).  My thought was to build a macro to do this and a few other things (map headings to sections, and convert footnotes), and then stick it in a Word template with a toolbar button.  I'm a scripting novice too though.

In any case, please let me (us?) know what you come up with...

Bruce

On Friday,  28, 2002, at 09:38PM, Adrian Heathcote <adrian.heathcote at philosophy.usyd.edu.au> wrote:

>Hi Folks
>
>I want to write a script which will take a Word file and convert some of 
>the most common character formatting in that file and replace it with 
>latex commands. So, for example if a string of characters is italisized 
>in word the script will replace it with that string surrounded by 
>\textit{}. And so on for some other bits of formatting that will not 
>convert with find/replace in Word.
>
>Does anyone have any suggestions, for a scripting novice, of which 
>scripting language would best accomplish this? Should I learn Perl, 
>Applescript or what?
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>Adrian Heathcote
>
>
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