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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.