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  <title>Why K-Talk's software doesn't work for me</title>

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<h1>Why K-Talk's software doesn't work for me</h1>

<p>last substantial update: May 25, 1998<br>
editorial update: Oct. 10, 2008</p>

<h3>Distinguish two groups of causes why K-Talk's software
doesn't work for me:
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<h3>A. General Problems</h3>

<p>1. K-Talk's software uses their own formula editor "MathEdit",
which is incompatible with Microsoft's equation editor. Therefore if I
convert a LaTeX file to word, only users having K-Talk's MathEdit are 
able to use the converted file.</p>

<p>2. On the PC wordprocessor side, K-Talk's software primarily
uses the WordPerfect 5.1 format. MS Word users must install extra 
macros for conversion to a "tagged document file". <br>

These macros however are written for Word6 and need some dlls belonging
to word6 which I don't have because I have word7(95). So I could not 
get them running.</p>

<p>3. Capacity: on converting the "LaTeX2e Kurzbeschreibung"
(from CTAN, "l2kurz.tex" plus include-files) I get the error message
"file l2k2.tex too large to include".<br>

As LaTeX is intended for large documents, a professional converter
should be able to convert large documents!</p>

<h3>B. Localization Problems</h3>

<p>1. In addition to being not compatible with MS word versions
later than word6, the word macros need to be localized if one doesn't 
have the English version of Word.</p>

<p>2. TexPort doesn't recognize German umlauts used in german.sty
- see the converted example "l2kurz"</p>

<h3>Sample of Converted Files (LaTeX -&gt; WP)</h3>

<p><a href="bin/essent.zip">essent.zip</a>
containing the files:<br>
essential.tex, hndout.sty=LaTeX source<br>
essent.wp5=wp5.1 file converted by TexPort </p>

<p><a href="bin/l2kurz.zip">l2kurz.zip</a>
containing the files:<br>
l2kurz.tex, l2k1.tex, l2k2.tex, l2k3.tex, l2k4.tex, l2ksym.tex, a4.sty,
german.sty=LaTeX source<br>
l2kurz.wp5=wp5.1 file converted by TexPort</p>

<p>where essential.tex and l2kurz.tex are originals from CTAN.<br>
(Meanwhile these files got updated on CTAN. 
If you want to use these files for other purpose than reproducing my
conclusion, get the current versions from CTAN.)</p>

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