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+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
+<html><head><title>latex2rtf converter</title></head>
+<body>
+<p>Up to the <a href="http://tug.org">TUG homepage
+(external link)</a><br>
+Up to <a href="textopc.html">Converters from LaTeX to PC
+Textprocessors -
+Overview</a></p>
+<h1>latex2rtf converter </h1>
+<p>this page last updated on Jan. 10, 2011</p>
+<p>latex2rtf, written in C. </p>
+<p>Converts most standard LaTeX markup and some more, but only
+those
+markup and packages which are hard-coded in latex2rtf's program code.
+</p>
+<p>LaTeX equations are converted either to Word's formula fields
+(EQ fields) or images.
+(Anyone who wants and is able to implement conversion to equation
+editor objects please contact me (texconvfaq "at" gmx.de).)<br>
+The default is conversion to formula fields. These generally display
+the equations in a reasonable quality. If in Word you double-click on a
+formula field, it will be converted to an equation editor object, but
+often with really bad result (depending on which constructs are
+contained in the equation). <br>
+Conversion of equations to images requires a TeX installation,
+ImageMagick, and Ghostscript.
+</p>
+<p>References are converted to field functions which must be
+updated after loading the resulting rtf file into Word (mark complete
+document and press F9).
+</p>
+<p>Still there are drawbacks in the conversion. In fact, don't
+expect any LaTeX-file to be converted like you want, don't expect it to
+be converted without errors or warnings, and: don't even expect it to
+be converted at all, since LaTeX2rtf is at most at a very experimental
+stage. LaTeX2rtf is known to have a lot of bugs. In fact we could state
+that there are some special cases, where a LaTeX-file can be translated
+to RTF satisfactorily by LaTeX2rtf. <br>
+-- This was sort of disclaimer, ok? Ok! </p>
+<p>C-source and makefiles (compiles on Unix and Macintosh OSX
+with gcc;
+Linux with gcc; MS-DOS/Windows with gcc (djgpp or cygwin); and
+Macintosh OS9 with the DropUnix environment) as well as executables for
+MS-DOS (compatible with win95, win98, winME, nt4.0, win2000, winXP, and
+Vista) and Macintosh are available from <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/latex2rtf/">
+http://sourceforge.net/projects/latex2rtf/ (external link)</a>. </p>
+<p>A stable but not always the most recent release is also
+available from <a href="index.html#ctan">CTAN</a>,
+directory .../support/latex2rtf <br>
+(the ... stands for a host specific base directory, which often is
+either "/pub/tex" or "/tex-archive"). </p>
+<p>We still seek for people joining us as maintainer or
+developer. If you are interested, contact me (texconvfaq "at" gmx.de).</p>
+<h3>Program Copyright:</h3>
+<p>This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
+published by the
+Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
+option) any later version. <br>
+This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+MERCHANT-ABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the <a href="GPL.txt">GNU General Public License</a>
+for more details. </p>
+<p>Note that this Copyright note only applies to the changes made
+to get the actual version. The older versions have their own Copyright
+policy stated in their distribution. </p>
+<h3>History:</h3>
+<p> In 1994 the first Version of LaTeX2rtf was written by a group
+of students of the Viena University supervised by Ralf Schlatterbeck.
+They took up a LaTeX parser and added most of the functionality to the
+program. In 1995 work continued with a second group of students. The
+result was LaTeX2rtf Version 1.5. </p>
+<p>Unfortunately, two different persons started further
+development of that program, not knowing of each other:</p>
+<ul>
+<li>In 1997, Daniel Taupin started updating this converter. He
+added e.g. the feature to convert equations to bitmaps by invoking the
+TeX engine. However this required the emTeX distribution (for DOS)
+which is no longer supported. </li>
+<li> In 1998, Georg Lehner found the reference to the original
+LaTeX2rtf on this webpage and added some functionality. His work
+resulted in version 1.8aa. Unfortunately he did not know about Daniel's
+developments.</li>
+</ul>
+<p>In 2001, Scott Prahl started to make some significant
+enhancements, also including many of Daniel's additions. He is still
+working on it. Latest stable release is 2.1.1 b5 and includes all of
+the features of Daniel's version.</p>
+<p>Temporarily I (Wilfried Hennings) feel responsible for
+coordinating the exchange of development information. But <em>we
+are still seeking for a person who can act as coordinator of future
+development, and we also need a person to take over the development.
+</em> Anyone feeling able to do that
+please contact me by email to texconvfaq "at" gmx.de. </p>
+<p>The project is now hosted at sourceforge.net which aids in
+further development. Visit its homepage at <a href="http://latex2rtf.sourceforge.net/">
+http://latex2rtf.sourceforge.net/ (external link)</a> or its
+project page at <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/latex2rtf/">
+http://sourceforge.net/projects/latex2rtf/ (external link)</a>. </p>
+<hr>
+<p>This HTML page is part of the texconv pages.<br>
+Copyright © 1998 &#8230; 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>
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