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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label fmtconv</title>
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<h3>Other conversions to and from (La)TeX</h3>
<p/><dl>
<dt>troff<dd><i>Tr2latex</i>, assists in the translation of a
  <i>troff</i> document into LaTeX 2.09 format.  It recognises most
  <code>-ms</code> and <code>-man</code> macros, plus most <i>eqn</i> and some
  <i>tbl</i> 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&#8230;).
  <i>Tr2latex</i> is an enhanced version of the earlier
  <i>troff-to-latex</i> (which is no longer available).
<p/>


<p/>




<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&#8217;s Rich Text Format to TeX.  There is also a
  converter to LaTeX by Erwin Wechtl, called <i>rtf2latex</i>.
  The latest converter, by Ujwal Sathyam and Scott Prahl, is
  <i>rtf2latex2e</i> which seems rather good, though development
  of it seems to have stalled.
<p/>  Translation <em>to</em> 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, <a href="FAQ-LaTeX2HTML.html">conversion to HTML</a>).
  TeX2RTF is supported on various Unix platforms and under
  Windows 3.1
<dt>Microsoft Word<dd> A rudimentary (free) program for converting
  MS-Word to LaTeX is <i>wd2latex</i>, which runs on MSDOS.
  <i>Word2</i><em>TeX</em> and <em>TeX</em><i>2Word</i> are 
  shareware translators from 
  <a href="http://www.chikrii.com/">Chikrii Softlab</a>; users&#8217; 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/>  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&#8217;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 &#8220;prints&#8221; 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&#8217; FAQ</a>,
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.
<p/>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.  <i>FrameMaker</i> provides
&#8220;import filters&#8221; to aid translation from alien formats
(presumably including TeX) to <i>FrameMaker</i>&#8217;s own.
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<dt><tt><i>excel2latex</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/support/excel2latex.zip">support/excel2latex</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/support/excel2latex/">browse the directory</a>)
<dt><tt><i>pcwritex.arc</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/support/pcwritex.zip">support/pcwritex</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/support/pcwritex/">browse the directory</a>)
<dt><tt><i>refer and tib tools</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/biblio/bibtex/utils/refer-tools.zip">biblio/bibtex/utils/refer-tools</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/biblio/bibtex/utils/refer-tools/">browse the directory</a>)
<dt><tt><i>rnototex</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/support/rnototex.zip">support/rnototex</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/support/rnototex/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/rnototex.html">catalogue entry</a>
<dt><tt><i>rtf2latex</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/support/rtf2latex.zip">support/rtf2latex</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/support/rtf2latex/">browse the directory</a>)
<dt><tt><i>rtf2latex2e</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/support/rtf2latex2e.zip">support/rtf2latex2e</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/support/rtf2latex2e/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/rtf2latex2e.html">catalogue entry</a>
<dt><tt><i>rtf2tex</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/support/rtf2tex.zip">support/rtf2tex</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/support/rtf2tex/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/rtf2tex.html">catalogue entry</a>
<dt><tt><i>tex2rtf</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/support/tex2rtf.zip">support/tex2rtf</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/support/tex2rtf/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/tex2rtf.html">catalogue entry</a>
<dt><tt><i>tr2latex</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/support/tr2latex.zip">support/tr2latex</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/support/tr2latex/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/tr2latex.html">catalogue entry</a>
<dt><tt><i>wd2latex</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/support/wd2latex.zip">support/wd2latex</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/support/wd2latex/">browse the directory</a>)
<dt><tt><i>wp2latex</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/support/wp2latex.zip">support/wp2latex</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/support/wp2latex/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/wp2latex.html">catalogue entry</a>
<dt><tt><i>Word processor FAQ (source)</i></tt><dd>
  <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/wp-conv.zip">help/wp-conv</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/wp-conv/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/wp-conv.html">catalogue entry</a>
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