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diff --git a/help/wp-conv/index.html b/help/wp-conv/index.html index d62e362db4..cf3b3bd59f 100644 --- a/help/wp-conv/index.html +++ b/help/wp-conv/index.html @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ (external link)</a></p> <h1>Converters between LaTeX and PC Textprocessors</h1> <p>Author: Wilfried Hennings (texconvfaq "at" gmx.de).<br> -last update of this page or any of its subpages: June 14, 2012<br> +last update of this page or any of its subpages: April 24, 2021<br> The url of this page is <a href="http://tug.org/utilities/texconv/index.html"> http://tug.org/utilities/texconv/index.html</a></p> <p><strong>I am experiencing that I have practically no @@ -22,8 +22,7 @@ I would then transfer the copyright to her/him.</strong><br> and thus preventing the original author from continuing her/his work,<br> – to achieve that the author is been informed about any -incorrect or -missing information.)</p> +incorrect or missing information.)</p> <p><strong>The main list is divided into two parts:</strong></p> <p><strong>Converters <a href="textopc.html">from LaTeX to PC textprocessors</a></strong></p> @@ -36,9 +35,7 @@ in a <strong><a href="wp-conv.zip">zip file</a></strong>. It is also available from <a href="#ctan">CTAN</a> (directory .../help/wp-conv/).</p> <h2>Related external www pages</h2> -<p><a href="http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/wiki/index.php?title=Converters" target="_blank"> -Mac Converters for TeX/LaTeX (external link)</a></p> -<p><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=fmtconv" target="_blank">TeX-FAQ (English), Other conversions to and +<p><a href="https://www.texfaq.org/FAQ-fmtconv" target="_blank">TeX-FAQ (English), Other conversions to and from (La)TeX</a></p> <p><a href="http://projekte.dante.de/DanteFAQ/DokumentKonverter" target="_blank"> TeX-FAQ (auf Deutsch), Dokument-Konverter von bzw. in das @@ -46,22 +43,13 @@ TeX-FAQ (auf Deutsch), Dokument-Konverter von bzw. in das </p> <h3><a name="ctan">CTAN</a></h3> <p>CTAN is "The Comprehensive TeX Archive Network". It consists -of two primary hosts and many mirrors.<br> -To reduce load on the primary hosts, the following link where you find -the converters uses the generic "mirror" address which resolves to one -of the mirror hosts: -<br> -<a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/support/" target="_blank">http://mirror.ctan.org/support/</a></p> -<p>The primary CTAN hosts – which also allow uploading – are the -German and the British:<br> -<a href="http://www.dante.de/" target="_blank">Der -deutsche CTAN -Server (The German CTAN server - external link)</a><br> -<a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/" target="_blank">The -British CTAN -server (external link)</a></p> -<p>It is also possible to order CD-ROM(s) from CTAN with the CTAN -contents – <br> +of a primary host and many mirrors.</p> +<p>The primary CTAN host – which also allows uploading – is the +German:<br> +<a href="http://www.dante.de/" target="_blank">Der deutsche CTAN Server +(The German CTAN server - external link)</a><br> +</p> +<p>It is also possible to order CD-ROM(s) from CTAN with the CTAN contents – <br> description in German: <a href="http://projekte.dante.de/DanteFAQ/Bezugsquellen" target="_blank"> http://projekte.dante.de/DanteFAQ/Bezugsquellen (external link)</a>,<br> description in English: <a href="http://www.tug.org/store/#software" target="_blank"> @@ -69,7 +57,7 @@ http://www.tug.org/store/#software (external link)</a>.</p> <hr> <p>This HTML page is part of the texconv pages.</p> <p><big><strong><a name="copyright">Copyright</a></strong></big> -© 1998 … 2012 Wilfried Hennings<br> +© 1998 … 2021 Wilfried Hennings<br> You may copy and redistribute it under the following conditions:</p> <ul> <li>It must remain intact and the contents unchanged; if you'd diff --git a/help/wp-conv/textopc.html b/help/wp-conv/textopc.html index 64741077d3..6a4a283e4a 100644 --- a/help/wp-conv/textopc.html +++ b/help/wp-conv/textopc.html @@ -1,430 +1,310 @@ <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> -<html lang="en-us"><head><title>Converters from LaTeX to PC Textprocessors - Overview</title> - -<meta name="author" content="Wilfried Hennings"> -<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> -</head> -<body> -<p>Up to the <a href="http://tug.org">TUG homepage -(external link)</a><br> -Up to <a href="index.html">Converters between LaTeX and -PC Textprocessors homepage</a></p> -<h1>Converters from LaTeX to PC Textprocessors - Overview</h1> -<p><strong>Switch conversion direction: <a href="pctotex.html">From PC to LaTeX</a></strong></p> -<p>Author: Wilfried Hennings (texconvfaq "at" gmx.de), this page -last updated on June 30, 2011<br> -The url of this page is <a href="http://tug.org/utilities/texconv/textopc.html"> -http://tug.org/utilities/texconv/textopc.html</a> </p> -<p>I maintain these pages because I need converters between LaTeX -and PC Textprocessors for my work and I want to share the information -with others who need it. Because I maintain them in my spare time (uh, -what is spare time?), I -can not answer individual questions.</p> -<p><strong>This list is as good or as bad as its support, -and it needs YOUR support to update and supplement this list.</strong> -Please supplement if you know more and/or better ones. There are some -more converters on the CTAN sites, but the following seem to be most -promising for conversion to and from the current versions of -wordprocessors. </p> -<p>Neither correctness nor completeness is guaranteed. <br> -All opinions mentioned (if any) are my own. Please -send corrections, enhancements and supplements (auch in deutscher -Sprache) to the following address: <br> -texconvfaq "at" gmx.de</p> -<p>Note that this FAQ list contains information about converters -<strong>ONLY</strong> between LaTeX and PC word processors. -Converters to and from <strong>other formats may have own FAQ -lists</strong> -- e.g. see the link for converters to and from HTML.</p> -<hr> -<p>For the impatient, here is a <a href="tx2pctbl.html">table -with overview of features</a> of the most recent converters.</p> -<hr> -<h2>General Remarks</h2> -<p>Before looking for a converter, stop and think about a -principal question: </p> -<h3>What do you want to be converted in which way?</h3> -<p>Do you want to convert the <strong>document structure</strong>, -i.e. a heading should remain a heading, a list should remain a list -etc., no matter how it will look like in the target format?<br> -Or do you want to convert the <strong>appearance</strong>, -i.e. how it looks like, no matter how it is represented in the target -format?<br> -Or do you want a mixture of both?<br> -For using SGML as an intermediate format, you would have to specify the -translation rules yourself (as far as I understood). This makes sense, -and explains why different people have very different opinions about -which converter best fits their needs: They simply have different -demands and expectations on what should be converted and how. <br> -So, not only practically there is no converter which is good for -everyone and every purpose, but this is even principally impossible -because there are no well-defined requirements which a converter should -meet. </p> -<p>An additional problem is that TeX/LaTeX can be extended by an -unlimited number of macros. Unless the converter contains a full-scale -TeX system, it can at best support the publicly available macro -commands, not the ones privately written by individual users. -Practically you can expect that it supports the standard LaTeX commands -and perhaps a few more widely used packages. The only converter which -uses a full-scale TeX system is TeX4ht. </p> -<p>So keep this in mind when looking through the following list -of converters, try yourself and decide what you need.</p> -<h3>There are several ways to convert. </h3> -<p>To illustrate these, let me restrict it to the Microsoft Word -case:</p> -<ul> -<li>directly type or paste LaTeX code into Word <br> -<br> -</li> -<li>use a Word import filter <br> -<br> -</li> -<li>use a Word macro: load LaTeX file as plain text, then -search for LaTeX markup and replace the markup by formatting, special -characters and equations. <br> -<br> -</li> -<li>use an external converter: </li> -</ul> -<ol> -<li>LaTeX -> RTF, then use Word's -own RTF import,</li> -<li>LaTeX -> HTML, then use Word's internet assistant or -built-in html converter,</li> -<li>maybe other external format(s).</li> -</ol> -<p>The converters being most complete and currently maintained / -supported are: </p> -<p><a href="#tex2word">TeX2Word</a> - a -shareware LaTeX import filter for MS Word</p> -<p><a href="#GrindEQ">GrindEQ</a> - a -shareware LaTeX import filter for MS Word</p> -<p><a href="#latex2rtf">latex2rtf</a> - a free -standalone LaTeX -> RTF -converter for PC, Macintosh and Unix, </p> -<p><a href="#TeX4ht">TeX4ht</a> - a free LaTeX -to html or XML converter for PC and Unix produces html which is good -for loading into Word. TeX4ht relies on other software, it needs at -least a full TeX system.</p> -<p>There are also converters to Powerpoint and to FrameMaker (see -further below).</p> -<hr> -<h2>Directly type or paste LaTeX code into Word</h2> -All of these only allow typing or pasting LaTeX coded <span style="font-style: italic;">equations</span> in Word, -not LaTeX coded text elements.<br> -<p><b>"Aurora"</b> -(formerly named Ribbit) can now convert a LaTeX coded equation (which -must be placed on the Windows clipboard) to Word. The converter is -still experimental and as such has a number of limitations, some of -which will be addressed in future releases. The converter’s -output will generally need some manual touching up to achieve the level -of fidelity -on a par with the original document.<br> -The other functionality of Aurora, which was the only functionality of -its predecessor "Ribbit", is letting you enter LaTeX equations in word -processors such as MS Word or in Powerpoint. One can enter the equation -in LaTeX markup, and the formatted equation is inserted as an object.<br> -See <a href="http://elevatorlady.ca/">homepage (external -link)</a> -(Shareware)<br> -Aurora needs a working LaTeX installation. If there is no, it will -install a micro version of MiKTeX. -</p> -<p><b>"LaTeX in Word"</b>: -See <a href="http://latexinword.sourceforge.net/">homepage -(external link)</a> -(Freeware, GPL). <br> -It allows to enter LaTeX equations in word -processors such as MS Word in LaTeX markup, and the -formatted equation is inserted in the Wordprocessor as a png -bitmap. It needs a server which performs the conversion. Server -installation files are available from the <a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=186573">download -page (external link)</a>.</p> -<p><a href="http://www.mathtype.com/"><b>MathType</b> -(external link)</a> allows typing and pasting equations in LaTeX -markup and also direct conversion of an equation in LaTeX markup which -is part of the Word document text.</p> -<p><b>OpenOffice</b> -allows typing equations in LaTeX-like markup. </p> -<hr> -<h2>Use a Word import filter</h2> -<p><a name="tex2word"></a><b>TeX2Word:</b> -Shareware, 99$ (45$ academic). <br> -Current version: 3.0, Feb 2011.<br> -Support for more document styles and packages will be available with -future versions. You can also supply support for document styles, -packages and user defined macros by yourself (needs TeX programming -knowledge).<br> -Needs:<br> -* MS Windows 2000, XP or later, <br> -* MS Word 97 or later, <br> -* with Word 97 to 2003, also <a href="http://www.mathtype.com/">MathType -(external -link)</a> 4 -or later is needed (full version of the Equation Editor which comes -with MS Word).<br> -See <a href="http://www.tex2word.com/">homepage -(external link)</a></p> -<p><a name="GrindEQ"></a><b>GrindEQ -LaTeX-to-Word:</b> Shareware, 99EUR (49EUR academic).<br> -converts LaTeX, AMS-LaTeX, Plain TeX, or AMS-TeX documents to Microsoft -Word format.<br> -You can choose the following formats for TeX/LaTeX equations: Microsoft -Equation 2007, Microsoft Equation 3.x, or MathType. <br> -Works with Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP/2003/2007 and Microsoft Windows -98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003/x64/Vista.<br> -Evaluation version is restricted to 10 launches.<br> -See <a href="http://www.grindeq.com/">homepage -(external link)</a></p> -<hr> -<h2>Convert to RTF</h2> -<h3>Free:</h3> -<p><a name="latex2rtf"></a><b>latex2rtf</b>: -LaTeX-to-RTF-converter. See the <a href="latex2rtf.html">more -detailed page</a>. </p> -<hr> -<h2>Convert to WordPerfect format</h2> -<h3>Commercial:</h3> -<p><a name="TexPort"></a><b>TexPort</b> -converts your TeX -and LaTeX files to WordPerfect or Microsoft Word documents.<br> -See <a href="texport.html">more detailed page</a> -<br> -See <a href="http://www.ktalk.com/texport.html">home -page -(external link)</a></p> -<hr> -<h2>Use a Word macro</h2> -<h3>Free:</h3> -<p><b>tex2doc</b> by <a href="http://members.a1.net/t.link/">Thomas Link -(external link)</a>: -LaTeX to WinWord 6 and WinWord 7(95) converter, written as Word macros. -Also attempts to convert tables! Not compatible with Word 2000 and up, -no further development.<br> -<a href="http://members.a1.net/t.link/tex2doc.html">homepage -(external link)</a>, -</p> -<p><b>ltx2word</b>, -by myself: LaTeX to WinWord 6, WinWord 7(95) and WinWord 97 converter, -written as Word macros. No tables. Not compatible with Word 2000 and -up, no further development.<br> -See <a href="ltx2word.html">more detailed page</a>.</p> -<hr> -<h2>Use a Word add-in</h2> -<p>The following are no full converters but only allow -typing or pasting LaTeX code into Word:</p> -<p><b>"Aurora"</b> -(formerly named Ribbit) can now convert LaTeX code (which must be -placed on the Windows clipboard) to Word. The converter is still -experimental and as such has a number of limitations, some of which -will be addressed in future releases. The converter’s output -will -generally need some manual touching up to achieve the level of fidelity -on par with the original document.<br> -The other functionality of Aurora, which was the only functionality of -its predecessor "Ribbit", is letting you enter LaTeX equations in word -processors such as MS Word or in Powerpoint. One can enter the equation -in LaTeX markup, and the formatted equation is inserted as an object.<br> -See <a href="http://elevatorlady.ca/">homepage (external -link)</a> -(Shareware)<br> -Aurora needs a working LaTeX installation. If there is no, it will -install a micro version of MiKTeX. -</p> -<p><b>"LaTeX in Word"</b>: It allows to enter -equations in word processors such as MS Word in LaTeX markup, and the -formatted equation is inserted in the Wordprocessor as a png -bitmap. It needs a server which performs the conversion. <br> -See <a href="http://latexinword.sourceforge.net/">homepage -(external link)</a> (Freeware, GPL)<br> -Server installation files are available from the <a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=186573">download -page (external link)</a>.</p> -<h2>Use a PowerPoint add-in</h2> -<p><b>TexPoint</b> enables the easy use of Latex -symbols and formulas in -Powerpoint presentations. See <a href="http://texpoint.necula.org/">homepage -(external link)</a>. -(Shareware) -<br> -Latest version requires PowerPoint2000, does not work with earlier -versions of PowerPoint.</p> -<p><b>Aurora</b> (formerly named Ribbit) now also -supports PowerPoint. -See <a href="http://elevatorlady.ca/">homepage (external -link)</a> -(Shareware)</p> -<hr> -<h2>HTML as intermediate format</h2> -<h3>LaTeX to HTML</h3> -<p>cost free unless otherwise stated</p> -<p>Because HTML is a structured format, the conversion between -HTML and LaTeX is rather straightforward. However there remain the -limitations of HTML compared to LaTeX, i.e. there are many elements in -LaTeX which can not (yet?) be represented in HTML. Converters from -LaTeX to HTML are:</p> -<p><a name="TeX4ht"></a><strong>Recommended</strong> -if you have TeX installed or don't mind to install it: <a href="http://tug.org/applications/tex4ht/mn.html"> -<b>TeX4ht</b> (external link)</a> -is a highly configurable TeX-based converter to hypertext. It comes -with a built-in default setting for plain TeX, LaTeX and TeXinfo, and -it generates html with accompanying css stylesheet, xhtml, or xml. The -converter needs a full TeX installation, but this gives the advantage -that TeX's full support for macros and styles is available (with only -few exceptions).<br> -Equations are converted to either bitmaps or MathML. There are some -different MathML flavors around which can be chosen by an option. -(Following description is partially copied from the TeX4ht web site.)<br> -The special command <br> -<tt>oolatex</tt> <br> -is available for producing xml compatible with OpenOffice, LibreOffice -(and probably also StarOffice). The output of the command <tt>oolatex -<filename></tt> is a zipped file with same name and -a ".odt" extension (containing the document in xml format which does -not suffer the limitations of html). For this to work, TeX4ht needs a -zip program which is not included in the TeX4ht distribution but e.g. -in the MikTeX distribution. -A zip program can be downloaded from e.g. <a href="http://www.info-zip.org/">http://www.info-zip.org/ -(external link)</a>.<br> -The resulting .odt file can directly be opened in OpenOffice or -LibreOffice, converted equations are editable in OpenOffice's or -LibreOffice's own equation editor. OpenOffice and LibreOffice -can save the document in MS Word 97/2000/XP (.doc) format, but -some equations may not be converted correctly to Word. It is also -possible to save as Microsoft Word 2007 XML (.docx), but this breaks -the equations (at least in LibreOffice 3.3.2).<br> -A command of the form <br> -<tt>htlatex filename "html,word" "symbol/!"</tt><br> -asks for HTML output tuned toward Microsoft Word. Such a format, -however, relies on bitmaps for mathematical formulas.<br> -Conversion to bitmaps additionally needs Ghostscript and ImageMagic or -netpbm. <br> -For more information see -<a href="http://tug.org/applications/tex4ht/mn.html">http://tug.org/applications/tex4ht/mn.html -(external link)</a>. -</p> -<p><a href="http://hutchinson.belmont.ma.us/tth/"><b>TTH</b> -(external link)</a>: -LaTeX-to-HTML converter which translates LaTeX into HTML 4.0 markup. -Formulae are also translated into standard html markup. (Free for -non-commercial applications.) <br> -A sister of tth, <a href="http://hutchinson.belmont.ma.us/tth/mml/">TtM -(external link)</a>, -converts formulae to MathML (Linux version for free, Windows version -must be paid).</p> -<p><a href="http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/ltoh"><b>ltoh</b> -(external -link)</a>: -LaTeX-to-HTML converter which is highly customizable, i.e. you can -define how the LaTeX macros which are used in your document are to be -translated. Requires that the input file conforms to LaTeX2e (see -documentation). It was last updated 1979, and it seems -that the homepage is no longer available, so look on -CTAN in .../support/ltoh/ .</p> -<p><a href="http://para.inria.fr/%7Emaranget/hevea/"><b>HEVEA</b> -(external link)</a>: -LaTeX-to-HTML converter which translates LaTeX into HTML4.0 markup. -Formulae are also translated into standard html markup (not yet using -MathML).</p> -<p><a href="http://hyperlatex.sourceforge.net/"><b>Hyperlatex</b> -(external link)</a> -allows the use of a subset of LaTeX to produce documents in HTML .</p> -<p>Some converters are available from -<a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/CTAN.sites">CTAN -(external link)</a> -("Comprehensive TeX Archive Network"), e.g. in -.../support/latex2html. <br> -(The ... stands for a host specific base directory, which often is -either "/pub/tex" or "/tex-archive") </p> -<h3>HTML to Wordprocessor</h3> -<p>Word 8 (97) and up contain the html converter by default (but -its installation may have to be explicitly chosen during the Word setup -in user-defined mode). <br> -For Word 6 and 7 (95) for Windows and Mac there are free HTML -converters available from Microsoft: <br> -Download... <a href="ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Softlib/MSLFILES/WORDIA.EXE">IA -for Word 6 (external link)</a> / <a href="ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Softlib/MSLFILES/WDIA204Z.EXE">IA -for Word 7 (95) (external link)</a> / <a href="ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Softlib/MSLFILES/MACIA20Z.HQX">IA -for Word for Mac (external link)</a><br> -</p> -<p>WordPerfect 7 and up have an integrated InternetPublisher. <br> -For WordPerfect 6.1 for Windows, the InternetPublisher is available -separately: -<br> -Download... -<a href="ftp://ftp.corel.com/pub/WordPerfect/wpwin/61/internetpublisher.exe">InternetPublisher -for WPWin 6.1 (external link)</a> </p> -<p>OpenOffice can also import html, but much better is using -tex4ht for lossless conversion to native OpenOffice format.</p> -<hr> -<h2>Other intermediate formats</h2> -<p>There are ways to use <b>SGML</b> as intermediate -format, and others have used it successfully. Having had a quick look -at it, I found it rather complicated, especially it seems that you have -to define the translation rules yourself. So I did not put more effort -in trying to use it. If anyone can give me a ready-to-use cookbook -solution, I will include it here.</p> -<p>An upcoming format is <b>XML</b>, a subset of -which can be exported and imported by Microsoft Office 2000 and up, -OpenOffice uses it as its native format, and the browser programmers -are working on implementing XML. It actually is an instance of SGML. As -it is more powerful than HTML, -conversion from LaTeX to XML would lose much less information than -conversion from LaTeX to HTML. There are good chances that it could be -used as a general exchange format in the future. <a href="#TeX4ht">TeX4ht</a> -already has scripts for converting to XML (TEI or DOCBOOK). MS Word -2000 and earlier can not import XML, for these target systems convert -to html+css using the xwtex and xwlatex scripts. MS Word 2003 can -export and import XML, but I haven't yet tested whether it can import -the TEI or DOCBOOK files produced by TeX4ht. <br> -The most successful path is using <a href="textopc.html#TeX4ht">TeX4ht</a> -to convert to the OpenOffice format (.sxw, which actually is a zip -compressed archive containing the document and vector graphics as XML -and the bitmap graphics as bitmap files) and open this in OpenOffice. -One could stop there, as OpenOffice is publicly available, or go on and -save from OpenOffice as a "MS Word 97/2000/XP" -file.</p> -<p>Most astonishing, one could also use <b>PDF</b> -as intermediate format. -Generating PDF from LaTeX is straightforward if you have a full TeX -implementation installed. If you have the full commercial version of -Adobe Acrobat 7, you can open the pdf and "save as" e.g. rtf (saving -"as Word doc" actually generates an rtf file, too), xml, or plain -text. Or you can use other commercial software to convert PDF to Word, -just do a www search for "pdf to word" to get several hits. In this -path of conversion however the document strucure and probably some -formatting will be lost. </p> -<p>Finally, you can use OCR software to convert any printed -document to word or plain text. To avoid the inaccuracy introduced by -printing to paper and scanning, you can convert the TeX output to ps or -pdf, convert this to a bitmap (using ghostscript), and feed this bitmap -into the ocr software.</p> -<hr> -<h2>Convert to FrameMaker</h2> -<p><b>la2mml</b>: converts LaTeX to FrameMaker -format. Maybe outdated, latest version was created -Nov. 1995. <br> -See <a href="la2mml.html">more detailed page</a>.<br> -<a href="http://vasc.ri.cmu.edu/old_help/Document/Latex2fm/latex2fm.html">homepage -(external link)</a> -</p> -<p><b>FrameMaker Utilities</b>: Contains converters -for both directions -(LaTeX <-> FrameMaker) as well as templates which make -conversion from Framemaker to LaTeX more easy<br> -<a href="http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/%7Ekjt/software/framemaker/"> -homepage (external link)</a> -</p> -<hr> -<p>This HTML page is part of the texconv pages.<br> -Copyright © 1998 … 2011 Wilfried Hennings<br> -You may copy and redistribute it under the following conditions:</p> -<ul> -<li>it must remain intact and the contents unchanged; if you'd -like to have something changed, contact me (texconvfaq "at" gmx.de). -Reformatting (e.g. from HTML to some other presentation -format) is granted as long as the contents are unchanged. </li> -<li>you may NOT ask money for it except a reasonable cost for -media and distribution</li> -</ul> -<p>Please also note the <a href="index.html#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.</p> -</body></html> +<html lang="en-us"><head><title>Converters from LaTeX to PC Textprocessors - Overview</title>
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+<meta name="author" content="Wilfried Hennings">
+<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></head><body>
+<p>Up to the <a href="http://tug.org">TUG homepage
+(external link)</a><br>
+Up to <a href="index.html">Converters between LaTeX and
+PC Textprocessors homepage</a></p>
+<h1>Converters from LaTeX to PC Textprocessors - Overview</h1>
+<p><strong>Switch conversion direction: <a href="pctotex.html">From PC to LaTeX</a></strong></p>
+<p>Author: Wilfried Hennings (texconvfaq "at" gmx.de), this page
+last updated on April 24, 2021<br>
+The url of this page is <a href="http://tug.org/utilities/texconv/textopc.html">
+http://tug.org/utilities/texconv/textopc.html</a> </p>
+<p>I maintain these pages because I need converters between LaTeX
+and PC Textprocessors for my work and I want to share the information
+with others who need it. Because I maintain them in my spare time (uh,
+what is spare time?), I
+can not answer individual questions.</p>
+<p><strong>This list is as good or as bad as its support,
+and it needs YOUR support to update and supplement this list.</strong>
+Please supplement if you know more and/or better ones. There are some
+more converters on the CTAN sites, but the following seem to be most
+promising for conversion to and from the current versions of
+wordprocessors. </p>
+<p>Neither correctness nor completeness is guaranteed. <br>
+All opinions mentioned (if any) are my own. Please
+send corrections, enhancements and supplements (auch in deutscher
+Sprache) to the following address: <br>
+texconvfaq "at" gmx.de</p>
+<p>Note that this FAQ list contains information about converters
+<strong>ONLY</strong> between LaTeX and PC word processors.
+Converters to and from <strong>other formats may have own FAQ
+lists</strong>
+- e.g. see the link for converters to and from HTML.</p>
+<hr>
+<p>For the impatient, here is a <a href="tx2pctbl.html">table
+with overview of features</a> of the most recent converters.</p>
+<hr>
+<h2>General Remarks</h2>
+<p>Before looking for a converter, stop and think about a
+principal question: </p>
+<h3>What do you want to be converted in which way?</h3>
+<p>Do you want to convert the <strong>document structure</strong>,
+i.e. a heading should remain a heading, a list should remain a list
+etc., no matter how it will look like in the target format?<br>
+Or do you want to convert the <strong>appearance</strong>,
+i.e. how it looks like, no matter how it is represented in the target
+format?<br>
+Or do you want a mixture of both?<br>So, not only practically there is no converter which is good for
+everyone and every purpose, but this is even principally impossible
+because there are no well-defined requirements which a converter should
+meet. </p>
+<p>An additional problem is that TeX/LaTeX can be extended by an
+unlimited number of macros. Unless the converter contains a full-scale
+TeX system, it can at best support the publicly available macro
+commands, not the ones privately written by individual users.
+Practically you can expect that it supports the standard LaTeX commands
+and perhaps a few more widely used packages. The only converter which
+uses a full-scale TeX system is TeX4ht. </p>
+<p>So keep this in mind when looking through the following list
+of converters, try yourself and decide what you need.</p>
+<h3>There are several ways to convert. </h3>
+<p>To illustrate these, let me restrict it to the Microsoft Word
+case:</p>
+<ul>
+<li>directly type or paste LaTeX code into Word <br>
+<br>
+</li>
+<li>use a Word import filter <br>
+<br>
+</li>
+<li>use a Word macro: load LaTeX file as plain text, then
+search for LaTeX markup and replace the markup by formatting, special
+characters and equations. <br>
+<br>
+</li>
+<li>use an external converter: </li>
+</ul>
+<ol>
+<li>LaTeX -> RTF, then use Word's
+own RTF import,</li>
+<li>LaTeX -> HTML, then use Word's internet assistant or
+built-in html converter,</li>
+ <li>LaTeX -> OpenOffice (or LibreOffice) writer, then save as Word docx<br>
+ </li>
+
+<li>maybe other external format(s).</li>
+</ol>
+<p>The converters being most complete and currently maintained /
+supported are: </p>
+<p><a href="#tex2word">TeX2Word</a> - a
+shareware LaTeX import filter for MS Word</p>
+<p><a href="#GrindEQ">GrindEQ</a> - a commercial LaTeX import filter for MS Word</p>
+<p><a href="#latex2rtf">latex2rtf</a> - a free
+standalone LaTeX -> RTF
+converter for PC, Macintosh and Unix, </p>
+<p><a href="#TeX4ht">TeX4ht</a> - a free LaTeX
+to html or XML converter for PC and Unix produces html which is good
+for loading into Word. TeX4ht relies on other software, it needs at
+least a full TeX system.</p>
+<p>There are also converters to Powerpoint and to FrameMaker (see
+further below).</p>
+<hr>
+<h2>Directly type or paste LaTeX code into Word</h2>
+All of these only allow typing or pasting LaTeX coded <span style="font-style: italic;">equations</span> in Word,
+not LaTeX coded text elements.<br>
+<p><b>"LaTeX in Word"</b>:
+See <a href="http://latexinword.sourceforge.net/">homepage
+(external link)</a>
+(Freeware, GPL). <br>
+It allows to enter LaTeX equations in word
+processors such as MS Word in LaTeX markup, and the
+formatted equation is inserted in the Wordprocessor as a png
+bitmap. It needs a server which performs the conversion. Server
+installation files are available from the <a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=186573">download
+page (external link)</a>.</p>
+<p><a href="https://www.dessci.com/en/products/mathtype/"><b>MathType</b>
+(external link)</a> allows typing and pasting equations in LaTeX
+markup and also direct conversion of an equation in LaTeX markup which
+is part of the Word document text.</p>
+<p><b>OpenOffice (or LibreOfiice)</b>
+allows typing equations in LaTeX-like markup. </p>
+<hr>
+<h2>Use a Word import filter</h2>
+<p><a name="tex2word"></a><b>TeX2Word:</b>
+Shareware, 99$ (45$ academic). <br>
+Current version: 3.0, Feb 2011.<br>
+Support for more document styles and packages will be available with
+future versions. You can also supply support for document styles,
+packages and user defined macros by yourself (needs TeX programming
+knowledge).<br>
+Needs:<br></p>
+<p>
+Word >97, also <a href="https://www.dessci.com/en/products/mathtype/">MathType
+(external
+link)</a>
+4
+or later is needed (full version of the Equation Editor which comes
+with MS Word). Note that without registration and payment it will
+revert to the free version which is sufficient for this purpose.<br></p>
+
+See <a href="http://www.tex2word.com/">homepage
+(external link)</a>
+<p><a name="GrindEQ"></a><b>GrindEQ
+LaTeX-to-Word:</b> Shareware, 99EUR (49EUR academic).<br>
+converts LaTeX, AMS-LaTeX, Plain TeX, or AMS-TeX documents to Microsoft
+Word format.<br>
+You can choose the following formats for TeX/LaTeX equations: Microsoft
+Equation 2007, Microsoft Equation 3.x, or MathType. <br>
+Works with Microsoft Word 2003 and up and Microsoft Windows Vista and up.<br>
+Evaluation version is restricted to 10 launches.<br>
+See <a href="http://www.grindeq.com/">homepage
+(external link)</a></p>
+<hr>
+<h2>Convert to RTF</h2>
+<h3>Free:</h3>
+<p><a name="latex2rtf"></a><b>latex2rtf</b>:
+LaTeX-to-RTF-converter. See the <a href="latex2rtf.html">more
+detailed page</a>. </p>
+<hr><h2>Use a Word macro</h2>
+<h3>Free:</h3>
+
+<p><b>ltx2word</b>,
+by myself: LaTeX to WinWord 6, WinWord 7(95) and WinWord 97 converter,
+written as Word macros. No tables. Not compatible with Word 2000 and
+up, no further development.<br>
+See <a href="ltx2word.html">more detailed page</a>.</p>
+<hr>
+<h2>Use a Word add-in</h2>
+<p>The following are no full converters but only allow
+typing or pasting LaTeX code into Word:</p>
+
+<p><b>"LaTeX in Word"</b>: It allows to enter
+equations in word processors such as MS Word in LaTeX markup, and the
+formatted equation is inserted in the Wordprocessor as a png
+bitmap. It needs a server which performs the conversion. <br>
+See <a href="http://latexinword.sourceforge.net/">homepage
+(external link)</a> (Freeware, GPL)<br>
+Server installation files are available from the <a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=186573">download
+page (external link)</a>.</p><hr>
+<h2>HTML as intermediate format</h2>
+<h3>LaTeX to HTML</h3>
+<p>cost free unless otherwise stated</p>
+<p>Because HTML is a structured format, the conversion between
+HTML and LaTeX is rather straightforward. However there remain the
+limitations of HTML compared to LaTeX, i.e. there are many elements in
+LaTeX which can not (yet?) be represented in HTML. Converters from
+LaTeX to HTML are:</p>
+<p><a name="TeX4ht"></a><strong>Recommended</strong>
+if you have TeX installed or don't mind to install it: <a href="http://tug.org/applications/tex4ht/mn.html">
+<b>TeX4ht</b> (external link)</a>
+is a highly configurable TeX-based converter to hypertext. It comes
+with a built-in default setting for plain TeX, LaTeX and TeXinfo, and
+it generates html with accompanying css stylesheet, xhtml, or xml. The
+converter needs a full TeX installation, but this gives the advantage
+that TeX's full support for macros and styles is available (with only
+few exceptions).<br>
+Equations are converted to either bitmaps or MathML. There are some
+different MathML flavors around which can be chosen by an option.
+(Following description is partially copied from the TeX4ht web site.)<br>
+The special command <br>
+<tt>oolatex</tt> <br>
+is available for producing xml compatible with OpenOffice and LibreOffice. The output of the command <tt>oolatex
+<filename></tt> is a zipped file with same name and
+a ".odt" extension (containing the document in xml format which does
+not suffer the limitations of html). <br>
+The resulting .odt file can directly be opened in OpenOffice or
+LibreOffice, converted equations are editable in OpenOffice's or
+LibreOffice's own equation editor. OpenOffice and LibreOffice
+can save the document in MS Word 97/2000/XP (.doc) and Word 2003-2010 (.docx) format, but
+some equations may not be converted correctly to Word. <br>
+A command of the form <br>
+<tt>htlatex filename "html,word" "symbol/!"</tt><br>
+asks for HTML output tuned toward Microsoft Word. Such a format,
+however, relies on bitmaps for mathematical formulas.<br>
+Conversion to bitmaps additionally needs Ghostscript and ImageMagic or
+netpbm. <br>
+For more information see
+<a href="http://tug.org/applications/tex4ht/mn.html">http://tug.org/applications/tex4ht/mn.html
+(external link)</a>.
+</p>
+<p><a href="http://hutchinson.belmont.ma.us/tth/"><b>TTH</b>
+(external link)</a>:
+LaTeX-to-HTML converter which translates LaTeX into HTML 4.0 markup.
+Formulae are also translated into standard html markup. (Free for
+non-commercial applications.) <br>
+A sister of tth, <a href="http://hutchinson.belmont.ma.us/tth/mml/">TtM
+(external link)</a>,
+converts formulae to MathML (Linux version for free, Windows version
+must be paid).</p>
+<p><a href="http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/ltoh"><b>ltoh</b>
+(external
+link)</a>:
+LaTeX-to-HTML converter which is highly customizable, i.e. you can
+define how the LaTeX macros which are used in your document are to be
+translated. Requires that the input file conforms to LaTeX2e (see
+documentation). It was last updated 1997, and it seems
+that the homepage is no longer available, so look on
+CTAN in .../support/ltoh/ .</p>
+<p><a href="http://para.inria.fr/%7Emaranget/hevea/"><b>HEVEA</b>
+(external link)</a>:
+LaTeX-to-HTML converter which translates LaTeX into HTML5 markup.
+Formulae are also translated into standard html markup (not yet using
+MathML).</p>
+<p><a href="http://hyperlatex.sourceforge.net/"><b>Hyperlatex</b>
+(external link)</a>
+allows the use of a subset of LaTeX to produce documents in HTML .</p>
+
+<h3>HTML to Wordprocessor</h3>
+<p>Word 8 (97) and up contain the html converter by default (but
+its installation may have to be explicitly chosen during the Word setup
+in user-defined mode). <br>
+</p>
+<p></p><p>OpenOffice and LibreOffice can also import html, but much better is using
+tex4ht for lossless conversion to native OO format.</p>
+<hr>
+<h2>Other intermediate formats</h2>
+
+<p>An upcoming format is <b>XML</b>, a subset of
+which can be exported and imported by Microsoft Office 2000 and up,
+OpenOffice uses it as its native format, and the browser programmers
+are working on implementing XML. It actually is an instance of SGML. As
+it is more powerful than HTML,
+conversion from LaTeX to XML would lose much less information than
+conversion from LaTeX to HTML. There are good chances that it could be
+used as a general exchange format in the future. <a href="#TeX4ht">TeX4ht</a>
+already has scripts for converting to XML (TEI or DOCBOOK). MS Word
+2000 and earlier can not import XML, for these target systems convert
+to html+css using the xwtex and xwlatex scripts. MS Word 2003 can
+export and import XML, but I haven't yet tested whether it can import
+the TEI or DOCBOOK files produced by TeX4ht. <br>
+The most successful path is using <a href="textopc.html#TeX4ht">TeX4ht</a>
+to convert to the OpenOffice format (.sxw, which actually is a zip
+compressed archive containing the document and vector graphics as XML
+and the bitmap graphics as bitmap files) and open this in OpenOffice.
+One could stop there, as OpenOffice is publicly available, or go on and
+save from OpenOffice as a "MS Word 97/2000/XP"
+file.</p>
+<p>Most astonishing, one could also use <b>PDF</b>
+as intermediate format.
+Generating PDF from LaTeX is straightforward if you have a full TeX
+implementation installed. If you have the full commercial version of
+Adobe Acrobat or pdf exchange editor, you can open the pdf and "save as" e.g. Word doc, or plain
+text. Or you can use other commercial software to convert PDF to Word,
+just do a www search for "pdf to word" to get several hits. In this
+path of conversion however the document strucure and probably some
+formatting will be lost. </p>
+<p>Finally, you can use OCR software to convert any printed
+document to word or plain text. To avoid the inaccuracy introduced by
+printing to paper and scanning, you can convert the TeX output to ps or
+pdf, convert this to a bitmap (using ghostscript), and feed this bitmap
+into the ocr software.</p><hr>
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