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Scientific Word and Scientific WorkPlace

last update: July 24, 2001

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MacKichan Software (external link) publishes Scientific Word and Scientific WorkPlace. Included with these products is a conversion program that will input RTF and output LaTeX. This conversion will correctly convert Microsoft Word Equation Editor or MathType equations in the RTF file to LaTeX. The conversion program is not available separately, but it is based on the free rtf2latex2e.

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There is a "light" (and cheaper) version available called Scientific Notebook (external link), which is also capable of importing RTF and exporting (sort of) LaTeX. They also provide a free 30 day evaluation version.

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Copyright © 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2007, 2008 Wilfried Hennings
You may copy and redistribute it under the following conditions:

• 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.
• you may NOT ask money for it except a reasonable cost for media and distribution

Please also note the disclaimer.

A stable but not always the most recent release is also available from CTAN, directory .../support/latex2rtf
(the ... stands for a host specific base directory, which often is either "/pub/tex" or "/tex-archive").

We still seek for people joining us as maintainer or developer. If you are interested, contact me (texconvfaq "at" gmx.de).

Program Copyright:

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.
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 GNU General Public License for more details.

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.

History:

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.

Unfortunately, two different persons started further development of that program, not knowing of each other:

• 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.
• 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.

In 2001, Scott Prahl started to make some significant enhancements, also including many of Daniel's additions. He is still working on it. So this page is about Georg's and Scott's version. Latest stable release is 1.9.19 and includes all of the features of Daniel's version.

Temporarily I (Wilfried Hennings) feel responsible for coordinating the exchange of development information. But 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. Anyone feeling able to do that please contact me by email to texconvfaq "at" gmx.de.

We got a project initiated at sourceforge.net which aids in further development. Visit its homepage at http://latex2rtf.sourceforge.net/ (external link) or its project page at http://sourceforge.net/projects/latex2rtf/ (external link).

This HTML page is part of the texconv pages.
Copyright © 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2007, 2008 Wilfried Hennings
You may copy and redistribute it under the following conditions:

• 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.
• you may NOT ask money for it except a reasonable cost for media and distribution

Please also note the disclaimer.