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- Subject: Summary: Converting RTF->TeX and vice versa
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.190423.14389@umiami.ir.miami.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 19:04:23 EST
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- Hello. This is the summary of the responses I received regarding the
- TeX -> RTF/ASCII conversion process. Quite a few people inqured about the
- RTF -> TeX program, so I'll mention that too.
-
-
- Thanks for all who replied, and I apologize for waiting so long, since
- I needed to follow up on where to obtain the TeX to ASCII program.
-
- t.c.
- ---------
-
- rtf-to-tex is the program that converts RTF to TeX format. There's another
- utility that provides similar functionality, but the distribution notes
- for rtf-to-tex mentioned that it's not as robust. It parses RTF
- and generates a simple TeX file, which needs to be edited as necessary
- to make it compile. At least most of the work is done for you.
-
- It is availble from sumex-aim.stanford.edu,
- as /info-mac/util/rtf-to-tex.hqx
-
- and mac.archive.umich.edu as well.
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-
- If all you want to do is strip out the TeX formatting escape codes, detex
- is the easiest way to do it. Note that all it does is remove the Tex codes.
- The file organization and formatting information created by LaTeX is not available.
-
- detex can be found at various FTP sites. The one most people are aware
- of is wuarchive.wustl.edu, in directory /usenet/comp.sources.misc/volume32.
- as detex/part01.Z
-
- It's C source, so the easiest way to use it is to run it on a Unix machine.
-
- This information is provided by Ravinder Bhumbla (rbhumbla@ucsd.edu)
-
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-
- The conversion of TeX -> ASCII can be done by generating the dvi output
- file using the txt.sty style. The dvi file is then converted to ASCII
- using dvi2tty. This assumes that you have access to a Unix machine
- running LaTeX. With this method, you get all the headings and resolved
- references, etc. The only thing missing is the character formatting, but
- that's easy to deal with.
-
- The programs can be obtained from sol.cs.bucknell.edu, in
- /droms/txt-dist.tar
-
-
- This information is provided by Alan Hastings (amhastings@ucdavis.edu)
-
- #Note: I have not personally done this conversion yet, since it requires
- familiarity with TeX.
-
-