[OS X TeX] latex2rtf: A developer's perspective

[Jan Eden]

Scott Prahl wrote on 23.04.2004:

>Jan Eden wrote:
>
>> in my experience, latex2rtf (actual version) does not even recognize 
>> the German quote marks (\glqq and \grqq), which makes it relatively 
>> useless for me.
>
>These are supported by latex2rtf.  You must somehow notify latex2rtf 
>that
>german is being used so that these commands will be recognized.  This 
>means
>that you need to use the babel package,
>
>\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
>\usepackage[german]{babel}

Doh. My mistake. I use a self-written class which automatically calls all the needed packages and sets parameters like german etc. latex2rtf does not recognize this class and assumes 'article'. From now on, I will explicitely use babel.

Thank you,

Jan 
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