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(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>
&#8211; 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 &#8211; which also allow uploading &#8211; 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 &#8211; <br>
+of a primary host and many mirrors.</p>
+<p>The primary CTAN host &#8211; which also allows uploading &#8211; 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 &#8211; <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 &#8230; 2012 Wilfried Hennings<br>
+© 1998 &#8230; 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
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+++ 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 -&gt; RTF, then use Word's
-own RTF import,</li>
-<li>LaTeX -&gt; 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 -&gt; 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&#8217;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&nbsp;<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&#8217;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
-&lt;filename&gt;</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"&nbsp;"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 &lt;-&gt; 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>
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+<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 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 -&gt; RTF, then use Word's
+own RTF import,</li>
+<li>LaTeX -&gt; HTML, then use Word's internet assistant or
+built-in html converter,</li>
+ <li>LaTeX -&gt; 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 -&gt; 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 &gt;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
+&lt;filename&gt;</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"&nbsp;"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>
+<p>This HTML page is part of the texconv pages.<br>
+Copyright © 1998 &#8230; 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
+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>
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