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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
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<p>Up to the <a href="http://tug.org">TUG homepage
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<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>
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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>
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