Introduction

This document describes a utility for converting L^ATEX files into several other formats, and the C++ library which the converters rely on for parsing and other services.

Only a subset of L^ATEX can be processed by this utility, especially since the target document language will never perfectly match L^ATEX. Whether the quality of the results are good enough will depend upon the application and your own expectations.

Tex2RTF is heavily biassed towards making on-line, hypertext versions of L^ATEX documents, but the RTF converter can be used for normal, linear documents too.

The latest version of Tex2RTF can be accessed by anonymous ftp from skye.aiai.ed.ac.uk (192.41.104.6) in the directory /pub/tex2rtf. It is available in SPARC Open Look and Windows 3.1 versions.

Tex2RTF was developed using the free Open Look/Motif/Windows 3.1 C++ class library wxWindows, also available from the above FTP site in the /pub/wxwin/beta directory.

• Why use L^ATEX?
• Output Formats
• What compromises must I make?
• Changes to L^ATEX syntax
  • Space
  • Command arguments
  • Labels