[OS X TeX] RTF2LaTeX2e (was: new fat i-Packages)

[Herbert Schulz]

On Jul 15, 2006, at 9:41 AM, André Bellaïche wrote:

> It seems that with a Power-PC and a 10.4.7 system, rtf2latex2e  
> doesn't work: that is, when you drop your file on the  
> rtf2latex2e.bin icon in usr/local/rtf2latex2e, the system thinks  
> that rtf2latex2e.bin is a directory and tells you you are not  
> allowed to modify the element rtf2latex2e.bin
>
> I can see no means to make rtf2latex2e.bin to work under classic;
>
> Fortunately, I have a laptop wich can start under MacOS9.
>
> André Bellaïche

Howdy,

I think you are trying to use it incorrectly. What you are trying to  
do is for old Mac OS 9 and before. This is a UNIX install so you  
would use the Terminal (i.e., Command Line Interface) and type

rtf2latex2e myfile.rtf

after changing (cd) into the directory where myfile.rtf resides. This  
will produce a .tex file. I had to add a few packages to get things  
to compile properly but that might depend upon what the file  
contains; mine contained \textbackslash so I used the lmodern and  
textcomp packages.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest.com)


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