Other conversions to and from (La)TeX
- troff
- Tr2latex, assists in the translation of a
troff document into LaTeX 2.09 format. It recognises most
-ms
and -man
macros, plus most eqn and some
tbl preprocessor commands. Anything fancier needs to be
done by hand. Two style files are provided. There is also a man page
(which converts very well to LaTeX...).
Tr2latex is an enhanced version of the earlier
troff-to-latex (which is no longer available).
- WordPerfect
- wp2latex is actively maintained, and is
available either for MSDOS or for Unix systems.
- RTF
- Rtf2tex, by Robert Lupton, is for
converting Microsoft’s Rich Text Format to TeX. There is also a
converter to LaTeX by Erwin Wechtl, called rtf2latex.
The latest converter, by Ujwal Sathyam and Scott Prahl, is
rtf2latex2e; this system seems rather good already, and
is still being improved.
Translation to RTF may be done (for a somewhat
constrained set of LaTeX documents) by TeX2RTF, which
can produce ordinary RTF, Windows Help RTF (as well as
HTML, conversion to HTML).
TeX2RTF is supported on various Unix platforms and under
Windows 3.1
- Microsoft Word
- A rudimentary (free) program for converting
MS-Word to LaTeX is wd2latex, which runs on MSDOS.
Word2TeX and TeX2Word are
shareware translators from
Chikrii Softlab; users’ reports are
very positive.
The excellent tex4ht will generate OpenOffice 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 RTF or HTML.
Word outputs and reads both, so in principle this route
may be useful.
You can also use PDF as an intermediate format: Acrobat Reader
for Windows (version 5.0 and later) will output rather feeble
RTF that Word can read.
- Excel
- Excel2Latex converts an Excel file
into a LaTeX
tabular
environment; it comes as a
.xls
file which defines some Excel macros to produce
output in a new format.
- runoff
- Peter Vanroose’s rnototex
conversion program is written in VMS Pascal.
The sources are distributed with a VAX executable.
- refer/tib
- There are a few programs for converting bibliographic
data between BibTeX and refer/tib formats.
The collection includes a shell script converter from BibTeX to
refer format as well. The collection
is not maintained.
- PC-Write
- pcwritex.arc is a
print driver for PC-Write that “prints” 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.
Wilfried Hennings’ FAQ,
which deals specifically with conversions between TeX-based formats
and word processor formats, offers much detail as well as tables that
allow quick comparison of features.
A group at Ohio State University (USA) is working on
a common document format based on SGML, with the ambition that any
format could be
translated to or from this one. FrameMaker provides
“import filters” to aid translation from alien formats
(presumably including TeX) to FrameMaker’s own.
- excel2latex
- support/excel2latex (gzipped tar, browse)
- pcwritex.arc
- support/pcwritex (gzipped tar, browse)
- refer and tib tools
- biblio/bibtex/utils/refer-tools (gzipped tar, browse)
- rnototex
- support/rnototex (gzipped tar, browse)
- rtf2latex
- support/rtf2latex (gzipped tar, browse)
- rtf2latex2e
- support/rtf2latex2e (gzipped tar, browse)
- rtf2tex
- support/rtf2tex (gzipped tar, browse)
- tex2rtf
- support/tex2rtf (gzipped tar, browse)
- tr2latex
- support/tr2latex (gzipped tar, browse)
- wd2latex
- support/wd2latex (gzipped tar, browse)
- wp2latex
- support/wp2latex (gzipped tar, browse)
- Word processor FAQ (source)
-
help/wp-conv (gzipped tar, browse)
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