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-<p/><dt>WordPerfect<dd> <i>wp2latex</i>
- has recently been much improved, and is now
- available either for MSDOS or for Unix systems, thanks to its
- current maintainer Jaroslav Fojtik.
-<dt>PC-Write<dd><i>pcwritex.arc</i> is a
- print driver for PC-Write that &ldquo;prints&rdquo; a PC-Write
- V2.71 document to a TeX-compatible disk file. It was written by Peter
- Flynn at University College, Cork, Republic of Ireland.
-<dt>runoff<dd> Peter Vanroose&rsquo;s <i>rnototex</i>
- conversion program is written in VMS Pascal.
- The sources are distributed with a VAX executable.
-<dt>refer/tib<dd> There are a few programs for converting bibliographic
- data between BibTeX and <i>refer</i>/<i>tib</i> formats.
- The collection includes a shell script converter from BibTeX to
- <i>refer</i> format as well. The collection
- is not maintained.
+<p/><dt>WordPerfect<dd> <i>wp2latex</i> is actively maintained, and is
+ available either for MSDOS or for Unix systems.
<dt>RTF<dd> <i>Rtf2tex</i>, by Robert Lupton, is for
converting Microsoft&rsquo;s Rich Text Format to TeX. There is also a
- convertor to LaTeX by Erwin Wechtl, called <i>rtf2latex</i>.
+ converter to LaTeX by Erwin Wechtl, called <i>rtf2latex</i>.
The latest converter, by Ujwal Sathyam and Scott Prahl, is
<i>rtf2latex2e</i>; this system seems rather good already, and
is still being improved.
@@ -53,17 +39,32 @@
shareware translators from
<a href="http://www.chikrii.com/">Chikrii Softlab</a>; users&rsquo; reports are
very positive.
+<p/> The excellent <i>tex4ht</i> will generate OpenOffice ODT
+ format, which can be used as an intermediate to producing Word
+ format files.
<p/> If cost is a constraint, the best bet is probably to use an
intermediate format such as RTF or HTML.
<i>Word</i> outputs and reads both, so in principle this route
may be useful.
-<p/> Another, unlikely, intermediate form is PDF: Acrobat Reader
+<p/> You can also use PDF as an intermediate format: Acrobat Reader
for Windows (version 5.0 and later) will output rather feeble
RTF that <i>Word</i> can read.
<dt>Excel<dd> <i>Excel2Latex</i> converts an <i>Excel</i> file
into a LaTeX <code>tabular</code> environment; it comes as a
<code>.xls</code> file which defines some <i>Excel</i> macros to produce
output in a new format.
+<dt>runoff<dd> Peter Vanroose&rsquo;s <i>rnototex</i>
+ conversion program is written in VMS Pascal.
+ The sources are distributed with a VAX executable.
+<dt>refer/tib<dd> There are a few programs for converting bibliographic
+ data between BibTeX and <i>refer</i>/<i>tib</i> formats.
+ The collection includes a shell script converter from BibTeX to
+ <i>refer</i> format as well. The collection
+ is not maintained.
+<dt>PC-Write<dd><i>pcwritex.arc</i> is a
+ print driver for PC-Write that &ldquo;prints&rdquo; a PC-Write
+ V2.71 document to a TeX-compatible disk file. It was written by Peter
+ Flynn at University College, Cork, Republic of Ireland.
</dl>
<p/>
<a href="http://www.tug.org/utilities/texconv/index.html">Wilfried Hennings&rsquo; FAQ</a>,