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authorNorbert Preining <norbert@preining.info>2019-09-02 13:46:59 +0900
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+This is an announcement of the first patch to "rtf2LaTeX", a RTF to LaTeX
+converter.
+The patch corrects several bugs reported to me via mail and on
+comp.text.tex. Also some functionality was added.
+ * Corrected bug in selection of Standard vs. Normal Style
+ reported by Doug L. Hoffman
+ * Corrected bug of writing into strings in Error Message
+ reported by Richard Kooijman
+ * Corrected problems people had with SEEK_SET undefined
+ * New rtf special characters bullet, emdash, endash, left double quote,
+ right double quote, left quote, right quote are now translated.
+ * New Options to use german versions of quotes with german.sty
+ * New option to replace paired double quotes by appropriate left- and right
+ quotes on output.
+ * In Error messages the name of the program should now be printed.
+
+RTF is the "Rich Text Format" a format to exchange documents. The format
+can be generated by several Text Processors, for example Microsoft Word
+and some programs on a Next.
+There already is a program to convert RTF to (plain) TeX written by
+Robert Lupton called rtf2tex. rtf2LaTeX is based on this program but
+tries to produce correct LaTeX which is in a form suitable for further
+editing after conversion.
+rtf2LaTeX is based on Paul DuBois' rtf reader package.
+It contains some modifications to the original reader. These changes were
+sent to Paul DuBois and are incorporated into a new release of his
+code.
+rtf2LaTeX was written by Erwin Wechtl as a one-semester practical work
+at our department. It may still contain bugs. If my time permits I will
+try to maintain the package, but note that I didn't write the code and
+so I will also have to dig into the sources if something goes wrong.
+
+The sources to the new version 1.3 as well as the diffs from version 1.2
+to 1.3 (1.2 was the first public release) can be obtained by anonymous
+ftp from:
+ftp.vmars.tuwien.ac.at
+in the directory /pub/misc
+in the file rtf2LaTeX.1.3.tar.z
+and the patch is
+rtf2LaTeX.patch1.z
+you need the new gunzip program to uncompress the file. Sources can be
+obtained from the same ftp server in /pub/gnu/gzip-1.0.6.tar.Z
+This, however may not be the current version.
+Alternatively you can specify the file name rtf2LaTeX.tar when
+downloading via ftp and the program will get decompressed on the fly.