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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
(external link)</a><br>
Up to <a href="pctotex.html">Converters from PC
Textprocessors to LaTeX -
Overview</a></p>
<h1>word2x</h1>
<p>last update of this page: Feb. 9, 2009</p>
<p>&copy; D.P.Simpson 2000 (word2x "at" duncan.telstar.net)</p>
<p>Converts MS Word for Windows 6.0 / 7.0(=95) documents
(binary!) to LaTeX, plain text or html,
without the necessity to have Word available, also on many non-PC
systems.</p>
<p>Latest version of this converter is of 2000.
</p>
<p>See <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/word2x/">http://word2x.sourceforge.net/
(external link)</a></p>
<p>Written in C++</p>
<p>Environments reported to work include</p>
<ul>
<li>RS6000 running AIX (Unix)</li>
<li>cygwin32 (win 32 Microsoft platforms)</li>
<li>DEC Alpha AXP under OSF/1 (Unix)</li>
<li>IBM SP2 (Unix)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.linux.org/index.html">Linux
(external link)</a>
(Unix)</li>
<li>SunOS (Unix)&lt; /LI&gt; </li>
<li>gcc on solaris (unix)</li>
<li>FreeBSD (Unix)</li>
<li>SGI (Unix, some hacking reuqired)</li>
<li>OS/2 and EMX with <a href="http://mars.aclcom.co.uk/download/word2x_os2.zip">this
patch (external link)</a> from Oleg V.Cat. Another port by Joerg
Klemenz has a
<a href="http://www.d3.net/joerg/word2x.html">web page
(external link)</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p>Environments reported <b>not</b> to work include</p>
<ul>
<li>acc on Solaris (source ANSI violations, fixes wanted)</li>
<li>Microsoft Visual C++ (lots of problems, includng lack of
alloca and incapable make clone)</li>
<li>Borland C++</li>
</ul>
<p>Further development in progress. </p>
<p>On CTAN sites, directory <br>
.../tools/word2x <br>
(The ... stands for a host specific base directory, which often is
either
"/pub/tex" or "/tex-archive") </p>
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Copyright &copy; 1998 &hellip; 2009 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>
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