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+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
+<html><head><title>rtf2TeX and rtf2LaTeX converters</title></head>
+<body>
+<p> Up to the <a href="http://tug.org">TUG homepage
+(external link)</a><br>
+Up to <a href="pctotex.html">Converters from PC
+Textprocessors to LaTeX - Overview</a></p>
+<h1>rtf2TeX and rtf2LaTeX</h1>
+<p>last update: Feb 14, 2011</p>
+<p>The information provided here is for those who are interested
+in the history.
+</p>
+<p>First, Paul Dubois &lt;dubois "at"
+primate.wisc.edu&gt; wrote an RTF reader and
+converter to plain text or troff. The version is dated April 1991. <br>
+See <a href="http://www.snake.net/software/RTF/">RTF
+utilities homepage (external link)</a>.
+</p>
+<p>a) Based on this reader, Robert Lupton &lt;rhl "at"
+astro.princeton.edu&gt; wrote
+the <strong>rtf2TeX</strong> converter. Last revision
+date: May 1992 </p>
+<p>He comments on this as follows (README-file): <br>
+citation begin&gt;&gt; <br>
+This is a first attempt at an RTF to TeX converter. The parts that
+handle fonts and such like seem to work pretty well, although they
+could be improved, but the table handling is a problem. I had a good
+deal of trouble trying to figure out what particular rtf control codes
+were supposed to do; this makes it hard
+to convert them into TeX. I have tried to produce good TeX, but this is
+not easy due to the sloppy way that many RTF writers generate redundant
+font and other changes. <br>
+Many things are not handled at all, more due to my lacking motivation
+than to their intrinsic difficulty. For example, I don't support double
+columns, but it would be easy enough to do (I'd generate a control
+sequence to do it, and add the TeX code required to the TeX_defs file.
+I even have the TeX somewhere...).
+<br>
+&lt;&lt;citation end</p>
+<p>So far the beginning of the README file. Later he commented: <br>
+citation begin&gt;&gt; <br>
+Most (all?) RTF is hopelessly unstructured <br>
+(the equivalent of \bf \it Hello \rm World \bf He \it \rm said. ) <br>
+and the code that I wrote tries valiantly to convert this to something
+sensible, in this case <br>
+{\it Hello\/} World {\bf He} said. <br>
+It is this attempt to make the output TeX usable that makes the code
+complicated... <br>
+I did not try to convert equations or tables as I could find no
+adaquate description of either; I don't think that it would be very
+hard. <br>
+&lt;&lt;citation end</p>
+<p>Available on CTAN sites, dir .../support/rtf2tex </p>
+<p>b) Based on these two, Erwin Wechtl wrote the rtf2LaTeX
+converter. <br>
+Last revision date: Aug. 1993 </p>
+<p>He comments on this as follows (README-file): <br>
+citation begin&gt;&gt; <br>
+<strong>rtf2LaTeX</strong> is a filter built on Paul
+DuBois' RTF reader that converts RTF (Microsoft's Rich Text Format)
+into LaTeX. rtf2LaTeX expends a good deal of effort in an attempt to
+make the resulting LaTeX maintainable and modifiable. <br>
+&lt;&lt;citation end</p>
+<p>At the moment converts text elements, but no formulas and no
+graphics. <br>
+C-source and an executable for MSDOS are available on CTAN sites,
+dir .../support/rtf2latex </p>
+<p>c) In 1999, Ujwal Sathyam took Paul Dubois' rtf reader source
+and adapted it to handle later versions of rtf.
+To distinguish this branch from the others, it was named
+<strong>rtf2latex2e</strong>.<br>
+In 2000, Steve Swanson from Mackichan Software
+(http://www.mackichan.com, makers of Scientific Word and Workplace)
+added the capability to convert Equation Editor and MathType objects.<br>
+In the further course of development, many more features were added,
+e.g. the capability to convert several types of embedded graphics.<br>
+Release 1.0fc2 was finished in May 2001 and remained as such until 2010.</p>
+<p>In Dec. 2010, Scott Prahl resumed development on rtf2latex2e,
+resulting in a first 2.0 release in Jan 2011.</p>
+<p>Available on CTAN sites, dir .../support/rtf2latex2e </p>
+<hr>
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