[texhax] Converting from LaTeX to MS Word

Steve Schwartz s.j.schwartz at qmul.ac.uk
Tue Dec 21 19:21:46 CET 2004


Peter,

You have my sympathies (really)...

You MIGHT try to cheat and use latex2html to convert your document into
an html one, and then try to open that in Word. The equations will all
be images, I think but at least they'll be there.

Alternatively, generate a pdf file using pdflatex (or dvipdf or
whatever) and buy your boss a full version of acrobat so s/he can edit
the pdf. They'll probably like this even less.

None of these are great options, but the real problem is that the
underlying paradigms don't match, so translation in either direction is
NEVER going to be 100% satisfactory.

Steve

On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 16:37, Peter Flom wrote:
> >>> Sorin Marti <mas at semafor.ch> 12/21/2004 11:09:22 AM >>>
> wrote
> 
> <<<
> Well I don't know such a tool and I don't think there is one.
> After all there are ABSOLUTELY no reasons for me to downgrade a 
> limousine to a bike...
> >>>
> 
> Actually, there are.  Here's two: 
> 1) Your boss insists on a Word file that he can edit, and doesn't want
> to learn LaTeX
> 
> 2) A journal you are submitting to insists on a .doc file
> 
> Both of these apply to me.
> 
> Peter
> 
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