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+.\" $Id: word2x.1,v 1.4 1997/04/10 21:30:05 dps Exp $
+.TH word2x 1 "1st April 1997" "Duncan Simpson" "LOCAL COMMANDS"
+.SH NAME
+word2x \- convert word 6 documents to another format
+
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B word2x
+[-Vhvq] [-w width] [-f format] [-d date-style] files...
+
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.I word2x
+is a program that attempts to produce a component, if not perfect
+rendition of a word 6 document. It guesses rather a lot from context
+and can make mistakes. Pictures are not supported and will not
+appear. There is very limited maths support in LaTeX mode, mainly due
+to lack of samples of mathematics. (I probably should have done this
+using TeX catcode and macro magic, instead of writing special code).
+
+Input files must be seekable and therefore stdin is not allowed. The
+files argument is of the form
+.IR "input file" ", " "output file" ", " "input file" ", " "output file"
+etc. \- may be used for stdout in the output file. If the output file
+is not sepcified a named is generated by adding on an appropiate
+suffix in place of .DOC (or .doc). Both .DOC and .doc are added
+automatically if the file name specified can not be found.
+
+As a special exception to the above any file ending on .doc or .DOC is
+assumed to be an input file. This allows one to type
+.BR "word2x -f latex *.DOC" ,
+for example.
+
+.SH OPTIONS
+.TP
+.B -V, --version
+print version on stderr and exit.
+.TP
+.B -h, --help
+show synopsis, output and date formats supported.
+.TP
+.B -v, --verbose
+be (moderately) verbose
+.TP
+.B -q, --quiet
+supress non-error messages (this is the default).
+.TP
+.B -w, --width
+set the maximum width of a line in the output
+.TP
+.B -d, --dates
+set the date format. Currently the formats supported are
+.IR uk ", " british ", " us .
+.I uk
+dates are
+.IR "22nd April, 1997" ,
+for example and US style dates
+.IR "April 22nd, 1997" .
+.I british
+is a synonym for
+.IR uk .
+The default is
+.IR uk .
+.TP
+.B -f, --format
+Set the output format. Currently
+.I text
+and
+.I latex
+are supported. The LaTeX output requires the AMS LaTeX package and
+LaTeX 2e. It should be reasonably easy to add another format, however
+some formats do a large amount of context guesswork, for example the
+LaTeX format (esp. in the paragraph handling code).
+.I text
+is the default.
+
+.SH BUGS
+
+One argument does not produce output on stdout
+
+The reader sometimes generates error messages when it is confused.
+
+The equation support is limited to only fractions at present.
+
+The program appears to understand a lot more than it really does.
+
+Pictures are silently disguared.
+
+Fast save files are not supported.
+
+The conversion is not perfect and needs manual cleaning up.
+
+Non-word files silently produce empty output in most cases.
+
+Equations are not supported in text output.
+
+If the cues the program recognised LaTeX mode does little more than
+produce LaTeX format tables and plain text output.
+
+.SH AUTHOR
+
+word2x is (C) Duncan Simpson 1997 and may be distributed under the GPL
+version 2, or any later version at your option. I would appreciate
+patches and information emailed to dps@io.stargate.co.uk
+