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.