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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/faq-fmt-conv.tex b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/faq-fmt-conv.tex index b899a2d62f4..90430598750 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/faq-fmt-conv.tex +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/faq-fmt-conv.tex @@ -263,10 +263,11 @@ The World Wide Web Consortium maintains a list of ``filters'' to Windows~3.1 \item[Microsoft Word] A rudimentary (free) program for converting \acro{MS-W}ord to \LaTeX{} is \ProgName{wd2latex}, which runs on \MSDOS{}; - it probably produces output destined for an archaic version of + it probably processes the output of an archaic version of \acro{MS-W}ord (the program itself was archived in 1991). - The current preferred free-software method is a two-stage process: + For conversion in the other direction, the current preferred + free-software method is a two-stage process: \begin{itemize} \item Convert \latex{} to \ProgName{OpenOffice} format, using the \ProgName{tex4ht} command \ProgName{oolatex}; @@ -277,15 +278,15 @@ The World Wide Web Consortium maintains a list of ``filters'' to \acro{CTAN}; see \url{http://www.openoffice.org/}, though most \ProgName{linux} systems offer it as a ready-to-install bundle.) + \ProgName{tex4ht} can also generate OpenOffice \acro{ODT} + format, which may be used as an intermediate to producing Word + format files. + \ProgName{Word2}\emph{\TeX{}} and \emph{\TeX{}}\ProgName{2Word} are shareware translators from % beware line break \href{http://www.chikrii.com/}{Chikrii Softlab}; positive users' reports have been noted (but not recently). - The excellent \ProgName{tex4ht} will generate OpenOffice \acro{ODT} - format, which can be used as an intermediate to producing Word - format files. - If cost is a constraint, the best bet is probably to use an intermediate format such as \acro{RTF} or \acro{HTML}. \ProgName{Word} outputs and reads both, so in principle this route @@ -343,7 +344,7 @@ translated to or from this one. \ProgName{FrameMaker} provides \Question[Q-readML]{Using \TeX{} to read \acro{SGML} or \acro{XML} directly} -\Qref{\context{} (mark \acro{IV})}{Q-context} can process some +\Qref*{\context{} (mark \acro{IV})}{Q-context} can process some \acro{*ML}, to produce typeset output directly. Details of what can (and can not) be done, are discussed in % ! line break \href{http://wiki.contextgarden.net/XML}{The \context{} \acro{WIKI}}. @@ -371,7 +372,7 @@ produce a formattable version. \item[xmltex]\CTANref{xmltex} \item[passivetex]\CTANref{passivetex} \end{ctanrefs} -\LastEdit{2013-02-21} +\LastEdit{2013-04-11} \Question[Q-recovertex]{Retrieving \AllTeX{} from \acro{DVI}, etc.} @@ -399,10 +400,12 @@ don't appear in the \acro{DVI} file itself), and mathematics is unlikely to convert easily. To retrieve text from \PS{} files, the -\ProgName{ps2ascii} tool (part of the \ProgName{ghostscript} +\ProgName{ps2ascii} tool (part of the +\href{http://www.ghostscript.com/}{\ProgName{ghostscript}} distribution) is available. One could try applying this tool to \PS{} derived from an \acro{PDF} file using \ProgName{pdf2ps} (also -from the \ProgName{ghostscript} distribution), or \ProgName{Acrobat} +from the \href{http://www.ghostscript.com/}{\ProgName{ghostscript}} +distribution), or \ProgName{Acrobat} \ProgName{Reader} itself; an alternative is \ProgName{pdftotext}, which is distributed with \ProgName{xpdf}. @@ -423,10 +426,9 @@ to map to its standard Unicode representation. \item[catdvi]\CTANref{catdvi} \item[crudetype]\CTANref{crudetype} \item[dvi2tty]\CTANref{dvi2tty} -\item[ghostscript]Browse \CTANref{ghostscript} \item[xpdf]Browse \CTANref{xpdf} \end{ctanrefs} -\LastEdit{2009-05-29} +\LastEdit{2013-04-16} \Question[Q-LaTeXtoPlain]{Translating \LaTeX{} to \plaintex{}} |