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| Noname 2006-09-26, 7:06 pm |
| Hi!
I'm trying to migrate completely to Latex, but I still have some Word files
.. I'd like to transform them into *.tex files. Which program can I use to
do that?
Thank U!
Ricardo
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| José Carlos Santos 2006-09-26, 7:06 pm |
| On 26-09-2006 17:37, Noname wrote:
> I'm trying to migrate completely to Latex, but I still have some Word files
> . I'd like to transform them into *.tex files. Which program can I use to
> do that?
http://www.tug.org/utilities/texconv/pctotex.html
Best regards,
Jose Carlos Santos
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| Robert Heller 2006-09-26, 7:06 pm |
| At Tue, 26 Sep 2006 16:37:17 +0000 (UTC) Noname <yo@no.tengo> wrote:
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> Hi!
> I'm trying to migrate completely to Latex, but I still have some Word files
> . I'd like to transform them into *.tex files. Which program can I use to
> do that?
Use word itself. Just save as plain text and edit back in the logical
markup commands you need. There does not really exist any programs that
will do any better than doing it by hand.
> Thank U!
> Ricardo
>
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| John Culleton 2006-09-26, 7:06 pm |
| Robert Heller wrote:
> At Tue, 26 Sep 2006 16:37:17 +0000 (UTC) Noname <yo@no.tengo> wrote:
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> Use word itself. Just save as plain text and edit back in the logical
> markup commands you need. There does not really exist any programs that
> will do any better than doing it by hand.
>
Abiword will do it. I use it all the time on novels just to preserve things
like italics, which are easy to miss when putting tags back in to a plain
text file. And I don't even use LaTeX!
I convert to LaTeX, then use some mass changes in Gvim editor to convert
\textit{ to {\it and so on. I use global changes to eliminate all the
begin/end Latex tags which conveniently are put on separate lines beginning
in position one.
If you want LaTeX to start with then you don't need to do all the massaging
I do.But of course you will need to eliminate page breaks and modify the
documentclass parameters, font choices and so on.[color=darkred]
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John Culleton
Able Indexers and Typesetters
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| Juergen Fenn 2006-09-26, 7:06 pm |
| Noname <yo@no.tengo> writes:
> I'm trying to migrate completely to Latex, but I still have some Word files
> . I'd like to transform them into *.tex files. Which program can I use to
> do that?
Open the doc files in OOo and save them in OOo1 format sxw. Then
convert the sxw's via writer2latex to LaTeX.
Regards,
Jürgen.
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| Guido Milanese 2006-09-27, 4:11 am |
| Juergen Fenn wrote:
> Open the doc files in OOo and save them in OOo1 format sxw. Then
> convert the sxw's via writer2latex to LaTeX.
Just a word to second this suggestion. I'm editing a whole journal
(Linguistics) in LaTeX, and most of the papers are submitted in Word, even
if I suggest LaTeX. writer2latex does an excellent job. The only
shortcomings: try to experiment with several configuration files. If your
files have a lot of "dirty" information, use a configuration style that
removes most of the formatting but the basic one. This happens, in word, if
you type a sentence, then decide that it must be in italics, then then it
must be in a bigger font, then to change the font itself... most of these
operations leave a "trace" and are translated as totally useless LaTeX
commands.
gm
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