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+ <title>TeXPerfect</title>
+</head>
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+<body>
+
+<p>Up to the <a href="http://tug.org">TUG homepage (external link)</a><br>
+Up to <a href="pctotex.html">Converters from PC Textprocessors to LaTeX -
+Overview</a></p>
+
+<h1>TeXPerfect</h1>
+
+<p>last update: July 28, 1998</p>
+
+<p>citation begin&gt;&gt;</p>
+
+<p>From: John Forkosh &lt;forkosh "at" panix.com&gt; <br>
+Subject: New WordPerfect -&gt; LaTeX Translater <br>
+Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 09:16:36 -0400 (EDT) <br>
+I recently uploaded my WordPerfect -&gt; LaTeX translater, called TeXPerfect,
+to CTAN. It's available in the support directory under texperf
+(.../support/texperf). <br>
+(The ... stands for a host specific base directory, which often is either
+"/pub/tex" or "/tex-archive") <br>
+Full C source is provided, as are executables for both DOS and Linux. The
+00README file in the directory provides more details. John (forkosh "at" panix.com)
+<br>
+&lt;&lt;citation end</p>
+
+<p>following extracted from the 00README file: </p>
+
+<p>citation begin&gt;&gt;</p>
+
+<p>Conversion functionality </p>
+
+<p>Some of the LaTeX conversions performed by TeXPerfect are: <br>
+Suppose your input contains a greek alpha from the WordPerfect character set 8.
+The output will contain $\alpha$ instead. Most of the other special character
+sets provided by WordPerfect are similarly converted. (This conversion is
+table-driven by the data in wpchrset.h, and can be easily augmented or
+modified.) <br>
+Superscripts, subscripts, bold, italics, etc, are all properly interpreted and
+handled. <br>
+"Hard" returns in WordPerfect <strong>should</strong> generate an
+extra blank line, so that LaTeX will see them as paragraphs. That functionality
+is mostly programmed, but a last-minute difficulty prevented me from completing
+it. Also, no attempt is made to generate section/subsection/etc commands. <br>
+If your running text contains an expression like f(x), TeXPerfect will
+recognize it and surround it with $'s. A variety of other ad hoc
+"rules" are hand-coded into the program to decide when to enter/exit
+math mode. Needless to say, the decision isn't always right. You'll need to
+correct tp's mistakes in Step 2 above. <br>
+Equations written with WordPerfect's equation editor will be reproduced
+"verbatim" by TeXPerfect, surrounded by \[ and \]. The only
+correction applied is that 1 over 2 becomes 1 \over 2, and similarly for
+various other keywords. But no serious attempt to interpret and translate your
+equation is made. Matrices, etc, will require considerable hand-tweaking on
+your part. But at least you'll have what you originally wrote right in front of
+your eyes. <br>
+A little LaTeX preamble, etc, is provided, primarily for "cosmetic"
+purposes. WordPerfect's margin settings, etc, are <strong>not</strong>
+interpreted to construct this preamble. You'll have to modify that information
+yourself. </p>
+
+<p>Warnings </p>
+
+<p>TeXPerfect was written to interpret files formatted by WordPerfect 5.1 for
+DOS. When run against 5.1 files, TeXPerfect is pretty robust. But, for this
+release, I commented out the lines that check the version number. If you're
+using WP/Win, it can prepare output in 5.1 format. I'd recommend you do that
+before using TeXPerfect. <br>
+&lt;&lt;citation end</p>
+
+<hr>
+
+<p>This HTML page is part of the texconv pages.<br>
+Copyright © 1998, 1999, 2000, 2007, 2008 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>