[OS X TeX] tex, pdf, and doc

Adam R. Maxwell amaxwell at mac.com
Mon Sep 4 16:58:26 CEST 2006


On Sep 4, 2006, at 07:45, Alex Hamann wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I guess this might be an issue that has been raised a couple of  
> times previously, but I could not find a satisfying answer so far.
> I have to hand in papers for a given projekt. While I am - not  
> surprisingly -  the only one of the group who has ever heard of Tex,  
> the advisor wants to bundle our files to a single file. Therefore he  
> wants me to use the doc-format. Is there any way to achieve an  
> output (or to convert it) so that I fulfill this requirement? All  
> the solutions I found are either highly unsatisfaying  (Acrobat,  
> save as... .doc), or require other commercial programs that I trust  
> even less.

It really depends on your needs; what are you trying to convert  
(bibliography, figures, equations)?  I've been happy with latex2rtf  
(command-line program).

Adam

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