NAME
 word2x - convert microsoft-word documents

SYNOPSIS
 word2x [-Vhvq] [-w width] [-f format] [-d date-style]
 files...

DESCRIPTION
 word2x is a program that attempts to produce a component,
 if not perfect rendition of a Word 6 document. It may or
 may not work with other versions. It guesses rather a lot
 from context and can make mistakes. Pictures are not sup-
 ported and will not appear. There is very limited maths
 support in LaTeX mode, mainly due to lack of samples of
 mathematics. (I probably should have done this using TeX
 catcode and macro magic, instead of writing special code).
 Input files must be seekable and therefore stdin is not
 allowed. The files argument is of the form input file,
 output file, input file, output file etc. - may be used
 for stdout in the output file. If the output file is not
 sepcified a named is generated by adding on an appropiate
 suffix in place of .DOC (or .doc). Both .DOC and .doc are
 added automatically if the file name specified can not be
 found.
 As a special exception to the above any file ending on
 .doc or .DOC is assumed to be an input file. This allows
 one to type word2x -f latex *.DOC, for example.

OPTIONS
 -V, --version
 print version on stderr and exit.
 -h, --help
 show synopsis, output and date formats supported.
 -v, --verbose
 be (moderately) verbose
 -q, --quiet
 supress non-error messages (this is the default).
 -w, --width
 set the maximum width of a line in the output
 -d, --dates
 set the date format. Currently the formats sup<hy>
 ported are uk, british, us. uk dates are 22nd
 April, 1997, for example and US style dates April
 22nd, 1997. british is a synonym for uk. The
 default is uk.
 -f, --format
 Set the output format. Currently text and latex are
 supported. The LaTeX output requires the AMS LaTeX
 package and LaTeX 2e. It should be reasonably easy
 to add another format, however some formats do a
 large amount of context guesswork, for example the
 LaTeX format (esp. in the paragraph handling
 code). text is the default.

BUGS
 One argument does not produce output on stdout
 The reader sometimes generates error messages when it is
 confused.
 The equation support is limited to only fractions at pre<hy>
 sent.
 The program appears to understand a lot more than it
 really does.
 Pictures are silently disguared.
 Fast save files are not supported.
 The conversion is not perfect and needs manual cleaning
 up.
 Non-word files silently produce empty output in most
 cases.
 Equations are not supported in text output.
 If the cues the program recognised LaTeX mode does little
 more than produce LaTeX format tables and plain text out<hy>
 put.

AUTHORS
 word2x is (C) Duncan Simpson 1997 and may be distributed
 under the GPL version 2, or any later version at your
 option. I would appreciate patches and information emailed
 to dps@io.stargate.co.uk

 Oleg V. Cat <prg21@morics.riga.post.lv> ported word2x to
 OS/2.

 Joerg Klemenz <joerg@gmx.de> contributed some bug fixes,
 better support for the german language, man page cleanups
 (including the OS/2 user documentation) and improved the
 OS/2 port of Oleg V. Cat.