[texhax] TeX to (editable) Word?

[Ahmed Shehada]

Dear Torsten,

This seems to be a pretty neat tool; could be be of much use for our
situation here.

Thank you for your concern and for your advice.

Regards,
Ahmed

On Feb 13, 2008 2:12 PM, Torsten Wagner <torsten.wagner at fh-aachen.de> wrote:

> Dear Ahmed,
>
> I had to fiddle around a lot with TeX<-->MS Word conversion. However, it
> is a quite painful act and most of the time you will be happy if you are
> able to convert the text with a minimum of text-highlighting (italic,
> bold, superscript, etc.) I never were able to convert math-equation in
> an editable format. Thanks M$ for not showing us how they read and
> control there doc-format.
>
> However, there might be some roundabouts which might help you out.
> First of all there are tools which create a picture of the equation and
> this can be placed in the MSWord document. This is for sure not editable
> anymore.
>
> There is another free tool as well which is called TeXaide (Windows
> only) [1].
> As far as I can remember with this tool you can create equations (in a
> GUI-style manner, good for your colleagues, bad for you), convert this
> to LaTeX code for yourself and in addition this tool provides
> OLE-objects to paste the equations in programs like MS-Word. If I
> remember correctly, at least for the Latex-Code there is a comment which
> includes the complete OLE-string thus you can easily copy this back to
> the program and edit the equation. For MS-Word, OLE-Objects mostly can
> be open and edited by double-click on the equation itself.
>
> However, you and your colleagues are forced to use this little program.
> And you cannot really synchronise all changes ....
>
>
> Maybe this helps a bit
>
> Greetings
>
> Torsten
>
> [1] http://www.dessci.com/en/products/texaide/
>
>
> Ahmed Shehada schrieb:
>  > Hi,
> >
> > Just a quick question on the compatibility of TeX. I understand the
> > primary output of the SW is in PDF or DIV format, with the possibility
> > of getting other formats like HTML, RTF, and more. I was also told about
> > other tools that convert TeX to word docs, however, from what I've seen
> > so far I wouldn't be able to edit the math formulae in MS Word.
> >
> > I will be preparing some course notes that include many Math equations,
> > so I wanted to use TeX for it's easy of dealing with equations but at
> > the same time make the notes available in (editable) MS Word format for
> > my colleages who would like to review/edit these notes but do not use
> TeX.
> >
> > Your help is appreciated.
> >
> > Ahmed
> >
> >
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