[texhax] TeX to Word

[Dieter Meinert]

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Hi Joan.

this seems quite a common request in a Banana dominated world, but as
well a sound solution seems impossible (how would one drop the
advantages of TeX et al. for some arbitrary, ever-changing subsystem of
a specialized, though almost monopolic, operating system)

After trying several more direct methods as mentioned by others on this
thread, I was quite successful when converting a PDF generated with Tex
et al. to a doc or rtf document using commercial, but relatively cheap,
pdf2doc converters. Two of them even kept the correct layout except for
the availability of some fonts.

The converters I used are  SolidConverter, which keeps the layout as-is
from the PDF putting several µs-doc-boxes around the text, and
PDFConverter Professional, with an almost similar result. Since my
experience with these tools is already some years ago, this route
(TeX->PDF->.doc) may have matured even more now.

HTH
- -D.M.

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> Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2010 12:58:07 -0500 (EST)
> From: Joan Boorstein <jboor at math.umb.edu>
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> Subject: [texhax] TeX to Word
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> I apologize for the heresy, but I've been asked whether there is
> software that
> can convert a TeX document to the equivalent MS Word document?
> 
> Thanks,
> Joan
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> Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2010 13:28:24 -0500
> From: Peter Davis <pfd at pfdstudio.com>
> To: Joan Boorstein <jboor at math.umb.edu>, texhax <texhax at tug.org>
> Subject: Re: [texhax] TeX to Word
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> On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Joan Boorstein <jboor at math.umb.edu> wrote:
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>> I apologize for the heresy, but I've been asked whether there is software
>> that
>> can convert a TeX document to the equivalent MS Word document?
>>
> 
> 
> You can use TTH (TeX to HTML) to convert to HTML, and then open the HTML in
> Word.  I've done that with LaTeX documents in the past.  You might have to
> clean up the Word document a bit by hand, but it's pretty effective.
> 
> -pd
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> Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2010 17:47:52 +1300
> From: Alan T Litchfield <alan at alphabyte.co.nz>
> To: Joan Boorstein <jboor at math.umb.edu>
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> There is this:
> http://latex2rtf.sourceforge.net/
> 
> Alan
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> On 12/12/2010, at 6:58 AM, Joan Boorstein wrote:
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>> I apologize for the heresy, but I've been asked whether there is  
>> software that
>> can convert a TeX document to the equivalent MS Word document?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Joan
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