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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{}}