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My and some other TeX experts' and companies' email addresses are -continuously flooded with virus laden mails.</B><BR> -<B>PLEASE check your systems with a virus scanner, remove the viruses, and from -now on use a resident virus scanning engine and update virus data files at -least twice a week.<BR> -If you don't want this, please remove my email address from all your address -books!!!</B></P> - -<P>I maintain these pages because I need converters between LaTeX and PC -Textprocessors for my work and I want to share the information with others who -need it. Because I maintain them in my spare time (uh, what is spare time?), I -can not answer individual questions.</P> - -<P><STRONG>This list is as good or as bad as its support, and I need YOUR -support to update and supplement this list.</STRONG> Please supplement if you -know more and/or better ones. There are some more converters on the CTAN sites, -but the following seem to be most promising for conversion to and from the -current versions of wordprocessors. </P> - -<P>Neither correctness nor completeness is guaranteed. <BR> -All opinions mentioned (if any) are my own, not my employer's. Please send -corrections, enhancements and supplements (auch in deutscher Sprache) to the -following address: <BR> -W.Hennings "at" fz-juelich.de</P> - -<P>Note that this FAQ list contains information about converters -<STRONG>ONLY</STRONG> between LaTeX and PC word processors. Converters to and -from <STRONG>other formats may have own FAQ lists</STRONG> - e.g. see the link -for converters to and from HTML.</P> -<HR> - -<P>For the impatient, here is a <A HREF="tx2pctbl.html">table with overview of -features</A> of the most recent converters.</P> -<HR> - -<H2>General Remarks</H2> - -<P>Before looking for a converter, stop and think about a principal question: -</P> - -<H3>What do you want to be converted in which way?</H3> - -<P>Do you want to convert the <STRONG>document structure</STRONG>, i.e. a -heading should remain a heading, a list should remain a list etc., no matter -how it will look like in the target format?<BR> -Or do you want to convert the <STRONG>appearance</STRONG>, i.e. how it looks -like, no matter how it is represented in the target format?<BR> -Or do you want a mixture of both?<BR> -For using SGML as an intermediate format, you would have to specify the -translation rules yourself (as far as I understood). This makes sense, and -explains why different people have very different opinions about which -converter best fits their needs: They simply have different demands and -expectations on what should be converted and how. <BR> -So, not only practically there is no converter which is good for everyone and -every purpose, but this is even principally impossible because there are no -well-defined requirements which a converter should meet. </P> - -<P>An additional problem is that TeX/LaTeX can be extended by an unlimited -number of macros. Unless the converter contains a full-scale TeX system, it can -at best support the publicly available macro commands, not the ones privately -written by individual users. There has not yet been an attempt to use TeX -itself for producing a textprocessor compatible output, and I don't know -whether this would be even principally possible. </P> - -<P>So the best you can expect is that a converter supports the standard LaTeX -commands and perhaps a few more widely used packages. </P> - -<P>So keep this in mind when looking through the following list of converters, -try yourself and decide what you need.</P> - -<H3>There are several ways to convert. </H3> - -<P>To illustrate these, let me restrict it to the Microsoft Word case:</P> - -<UL> -<LI>use a Word import filter <BR> -<BR> -</LI> -<LI>use a Word macro: load LaTeX file as plain text, then search for LaTeX -markup and replace the markup by formatting, special characters and equations. -<BR> -<BR> -</LI> -<LI>use an external converter: </LI> -</UL> -<OL> -<LI>LaTeX -> RTF (Word ASCII format), then use Word's own RTF import),</LI> -<LI>LaTeX -> HTML, then use Word's internet assistant or built-in html -converter,</LI> -<LI>maybe other external format(s).</LI> -</OL> - -<P>The converters being most complete and currently maintained / supported are: -</P> - -<P><A HREF="#tex2word">TeX2Word</A> - a shareware import filter for MS Word</P> - -<P><A HREF="#latex2rtf">latex2rtf</A> - a free standalone LaTeX -> RTF -converter for PC, Macintosh and Unix, </P> - -<P><A HREF="#TexPort">TexPort</A> - a commercial TeX/LaTeX to WordPerfect and -Microsoft Word converter for PC.</P> - -<P><A HREF="#TeX4ht">TeX4ht</A> - a free LaTeX to html or XML converter for PC -and Unix produces html which is good for loading into Word. TeX4ht relies on -other software, it needs at least a full TeX system.</P> - -<P>There are also converters to Powerpoint and to FrameMaker (see further -below).</P> -<HR> - -<H2>Use a Word import filter</H2> - -<P><A NAME="tex2word">TeX2Word:</A> Chikrii Softlab -<A HREF="http://www.word2tex.com/">http://www.tex2word.com/</A> Shareware, 99$ -(45$ academic). <BR> -Current version: 2.0, released March 2003.<BR> -Support for more document styles and packages will be available with future -versions. You can also supply support for document styles, packages and user -defined macros by yourself (needs TeX programming knowledge).<BR> -Needs:<BR> -* MS Windows 95 or later (NT4, ME, Win2000, WinXP), <BR> -* MS Word 95 or later (97, 2000, XP) and <BR> -* <A HREF="http://www.mathtype.com/">MathType</A> 4 or later (full version of -the Equation Editor which comes with MS Word).</P> -<HR> - -<H2>Convert to RTF</H2> - -<H3>Free:</H3> - -<P>The next two converters are based on the latex2rtf converter which was -originally developed by a group of students supervised by Ralf Schlatterbeck at -TU Wien (Vienna). Unfortunately, two different persons, not knowing of each -other, had taken over this version and started implementing more features.</P> - -<P><A NAME="latex2rtf"></A><B>latex2rtf</B>: LaTeX-to-RTF-converter. See the -<A HREF="latex2rtf.html">more detailed page</A>. </P> - -<P><B>ltx2rtf</B>: LaTeX-to-RTF-converter. See the <A HREF="ltx2rtf.html">more -detailed page</A><BR> -Nearly all features now merged into latex2rtf (see above). </P> - -<P><B>LEQ</B>: LaTeX-to-Word converter. Requires Python (free) and MS Word. See -<A HREF="http://pantheon.yale.edu/~pmm34/leq.html">LEQ homepage</A>. Translates -TeX equations to Word's formula fields first. If double-clicked in Word, a -formula field will be converted to an equation editor object, but I have some -bad experiences with this conversion from EQ fields to equation editor objects. -</P> - -<P><A HREF="tex2rtf.html">TeX2RTF</A> is not intended as an all-purpose -converter but to produce printed manuals as well as online help from a single -LaTeX source (with a limited subset of LaTeX commands). See -<A HREF="http://www.wxwindows.org/tex2rtf/index.htm">TeX2RTF homepage (UK -site)</A></P> -<HR> - -<H2>Convert to WordPerfect format</H2> - -<H3>Commercial:</H3> - -<P><A NAME="TexPort"></A><A HREF="texport.html">TexPort</A> converts your TeX -and LaTeX files to WordPerfect or Microsoft Word documents. -<A HREF="http://www.ktalk.com/">KTALK's home page (USA)</A></P> -<HR> - -<H2>Use a Word macro</H2> - -<H3>Free:</H3> - -<P><A HREF="http://members.a1.net/t.link/tex2doc.html">tex2doc</A>, by -<A HREF="http://members.a1.net/t.link/">Thomas Link</A>: LaTeX to WinWord 6 and -WinWord 7(95) converter, written as Word macros. Also attempts to convert -tables!</P> - -<P><A HREF="ltx2word.html">ltx2word</A>, by myself: LaTeX to WinWord 6, WinWord -7(95) and WinWord 97 converter, written as Word macros. No tables yet.</P> -<HR> - -<H2>Use a Powerpoint add-in</H2> - -<P>TexPoint enables the easy use of Latex symbols and formulas in Powerpoint -presentations. See <A HREF="http://raw.cs.berkeley.edu/texpoint/index.htm">homepage</A>. -Latest version requires Powerpoint2000, does not work with earlier versions.</P> -<HR> - -<H2>HTML as intermediate format</H2> - -<H3>LaTeX to HTML</H3> - -<P>Because HTML is a structured format, the conversion between HTML and LaTeX -is rather straightforward. However there remain the limitations of HTML -compared to LaTeX, i.e. there are many elements in LaTeX which can not (yet?) -be represented in HTML. Converters from LaTeX to HTML are:</P> - -<P><A NAME="TeX4ht"></A><STRONG>Recommended</STRONG> if you have TeX installed -or don't mind to install it: -<STRONG><A HREF="http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/~gurari/TeX4ht/mn.html">TeX4ht</A></STRONG> -is a highly configurable TeX-based converter to hypertext. It comes with a -built-in default setting for plain TeX, LaTeX and TeXinfo, and it generates -html with accompanying css stylesheet. The converter needs a full TeX -installation, but this gives the advantage that TeX's full support for macros -and styles is available (with a few exceptions) and need not be implemented in -the converter.<BR> -Equations are converted to either bitmaps or MathML. There are some different -MathML flavors around which can be chosen by an option.<BR> -The special command <BR> -<TT>oolatex</TT><BR> -is available for producing xhtml compatible with OpenOffice (formerly -StarOffice). <BR> -A command of the form <BR> -<TT>htlatex filename "html,word" "symbol/!"</TT><BR> -asks for HTML output tuned toward MicroSoft Word. Such a format, however, -relies on bitmaps for mathematical formulas.<BR> -Conversion to bitmaps additionally needs Ghostscript and ImageMagic or netpbm. -</P> - -<P><A HREF="http://hutchinson.belmont.ma.us/tth/">tth (US site)</A>: -LaTeX-to-HTML converter which translates LaTeX into HTML3.2 markup. Formulae -are also translated into standard html markup. A version which translates maths -to MathML is in the testing phase.</P> - -<P><A HREF="http://www.best.com/~quong/ltoh/">ltoh (US site)</A>: LaTeX-to-HTML -converter which is highly customizable, i.e. you can define how the LaTeX -macros which are used in your document are to be translated.</P> - -<P><A HREF="http://para.inria.fr/~maranget/hevea/">HEVEA (FR site)</A>: -LaTeX-to-HTML converter which translates LaTeX into HTML4.0 markup. Formulae -are also translated into standard html markup (not yet using MathML).</P> - -<P><A HREF="http://graphics.postech.ac.kr/otfried/html/hyperlatex.html">Hyperlatex</A> -allows the use of a subset of LaTeX to produce documents in HTML .</P> - -<P>Some converters are available from -<A HREF="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/CTAN.sites">CTAN</A> -("Comprehensive TeX Archive Network"), e.g. in -.../support/latex2html. <BR> -(The ... stands for a host specific base directory, which often is either -"/pub/tex" or "/tex-archive") </P> - -<H3>HTML to Wordprocessor</H3> - -<P>Word 8 (97) and up contain the html converter by default (but its -installation may have to be explicitly chosen during the Word setup in -user-defined mode). <BR> -For Word 6 and 7 (95) for Windows and Mac there are free HTML converters -available from Microsoft: <BR> -Download... -<A HREF="ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Softlib/MSLFILES/WORDIA.EXE">IA for Word 6</A> / -<A HREF="ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Softlib/MSLFILES/WDIA204Z.EXE">IA for Word 7 (95)</A> / -<A HREF="ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Softlib/MSLFILES/MACIA20Z.HQX">IA for Word for Mac</A><BR> -</P> - -<P>WordPerfect 7 and up have an integrated InternetPublisher. <BR> -For WordPerfect 6.1 for Windows, the InternetPublisher is available separately: -<BR> -Download... -<A HREF="ftp://ftp.corel.com/pub/WordPerfect/wpwin/61/internetpublisher.exe"> -InternetPublisher for WPWin 6.1</A> </P> -<HR> - -<H2>Other intermediate formats</H2> - -<P>There are ways to use <B>SGML</B> as intermediate format, and others have -used it successfully. Having had a quick look at it, I found it rather -complicated, especially it seems that you have to define the translation rules -yourself. So I did not put more effort in trying to use it. If anyone can give -me a ready-to-use cookbook solution, I will include it here.</P> - -<P>An upcoming format is <B>XML</B>, a subset of which can be exported and -imported by Microsoft Office 2000 and up, OpenOffice uses it as its native -format, and the browser programmers are working on implementing XML. It -actually is an instance of SGML. As it is more powerful than HTML, conversion -from LaTeX to XML would lose much less information than conversion from LaTeX -to HTML. There are good chances that it could be used as a general exchange -format in the future. <A HREF="#TeX4ht">TeX4ht</A> already has scripts for -converting to XML (TEI or DOCBOOK) but Word 2000 can not import that. For -producing output compatible to MS Word, convert to html+css using the xwtex and -xwlatex scripts. </P> - -<P>Most astonishing, one could also use <B>PDF</B> as intermediate format. -Generating PDF from LaTeX is straightforward if you have a full TeX -implementation installed. If you also have the full commercial version of Adobe -Acrobat, the commercial software BCLDrake can convert PDF to RTF which can be -opened by Word and other wordprocessors. See -<A HREF="http://www.bcltechnologies.com/products/drake/drake.htm"> -http://www.bcltechnologies.com/products/drake/drake.htm</A>. -</P> -<HR> - -<H2>Convert to FrameMaker</H2> - -<P><A HREF="la2mml.html">la2mml</A>: converts LaTeX to FrameMaker format. Maybe -outdated, latest version was created Nov. 1995. -<A HREF="http://www.vasc.ri.cmu.edu/help/Document/Latex2fm/latex2fm.html">homepage</A> -</P> - -<P><A HREF="http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~kjt/software/framemaker/">FrameMaker -Utilities (UK site)</A>: Contains converters for both directions (LaTeX -<-> FrameMaker) as well as templates which make conversion from -Framemaker to LaTeX more easy</P> -<HR> - -<P>This HTML page is part of the texconv pages.<BR> -Copyright © 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 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 (W.Hennings "at" fz-juelich.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> -</BODY> -</HTML> - |