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+<TITLE>wv library</TITLE>
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+
+<P>Up to the <A HREF="http://tug.org">TUG homepage</A><BR>
+Up to <A HREF="pctotex.html">Converters from PC Textprocessors to LaTeX -
+Overview</A></P>
+
+<H1>wv library</H1>
+
+<P>last update: April 27, 2001</P>
+
+<P>Most of the following description was copied from the wvware homepage
+<A HREF="http://www.wvware.com/">http://www.wvware.com/</A></P>
+
+<P>---&gt; citation begin ---&gt;</P>
+
+<P>... wv library, the new name of the project previously known as
+<STRONG>mswordview</STRONG>. Seeing as that name is far too close to
+Microsoft's own product named
+<A HREF="http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/2000/downloadDetails/wdvw9716.htm">
+wordview</A> the library has been renamed to <STRONG>wv</STRONG>. </P>
+
+<P>wv is a library which allows access to Microsoft Word files. It can load and
+parse the word 2000, 97, 95 and 6 file formats. These are the file formats
+known internally as Word 9, 8, 7 and 6. Work is underway to support reading
+earlier formats as well: Word 2 docs are converted to plaintext. wv compiles
+and works under most operating systems, particularly Linux, BSD, Solaris, OS/2,
+AIX and OSF1. It is (to my knowledge) very portable. I have reports that it can
+be compiled under Windows using Cygwin32, and that it can compile under AmigaOS
+VMS with varying levels of success. It is known to compile and work on all of
+<A HREF="http://www.abisource.com/">Abiword's</A> supported platforms, which
+there are a lot of. </P>
+
+<P>wv allows other programs access to Word documents for the purpose of
+converting them to other formats, it is currently being used by
+<A HREF="http://www.abisource.com/">Abiword</A> as its word importer. Concepts
+and bits of code are being used by the KDE folks over at
+<A HREF="http://koffice.kde.org/">KWord</A> in their word importer. </P>
+
+<P> Provided with the wv distributions is an application caled wvWare. wvWare
+is a &quot;power-user&quot; application with lots of command-line options,
+doo-dads, bells, and whistles. Less interesting, but more convenient are the
+helper scripts that utilize wvWare. These are: </P>
+
+<UL>
+<LI>wvHtml: convert your Word document into HTML4.0 </LI>
+<LI>wvLatex: convert your Word document into visually (pretty) correct LaTeX
+</LI>
+<LI>wvCleanLatex: convert into 'cleaner' LaTeX containing less visual mark-up,
+more suitable for further use and LyX import. Work in progress </LI>
+<LI>wvDVI: converts word to DVI. Requires 'latex' </LI>
+<LI>wvPS: converts word to PostScript. Requires 'dvips' </LI>
+<LI>wvPDF: converts word to Adobe PDF. Requires 'distill' from Adobe [Someone
+do a pdflatex or pdfhtml version :-)] </LI>
+<LI>wvText: converts word to plain text. Textually correct output requires
+'lynx.' For poor output, this doesn't require anything special. </LI>
+<LI>wvAbw: converts word to Abiword format. Abiword does a better job than
+this, in some respects. </LI>
+<LI>wvWml: converts word to WML for viewing on portable devices like WebPhones
+and Palm Pilots. </LI>
+<LI>wvRtf: a basic version exists </LI>
+<LI>wvMime: can be plugged as a MIME helper application into your browser/mail
+client; presents the document on-screen inside GhostView, while all
+intermediate files generated go into the /tmp directory. </LI>
+</UL>
+
+<P>&lt;--- citation end &lt;---</P>
+
+<HR>
+
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