Re: tlug: MS Word <-> TeX?

[Dmytro Kovalev <dk@example.com>]

Hi,

I have used sometimes ago word2x converter. Although it seems for me not too 
reliable but it can help sometimes -- I was able to read some Word documents 
not having the Word . Here is a part of man page for word2x:

word2x(1)                                               word2x(1)


NAME
       word2x - convert word 6 documents to another format


SYNOPSIS
       word2x  [-Vhvq]  [-w  width]  [-f  format] [-d date-style]
       files...


DESCRIPTION
       word2x is a program that attempts to produce a  component,
       if  not perfect rendition of a word 6 document. It guesses
       rather a lot from context and can make mistakes.  Pictures
       are  not supported and will not appear. There is very lim-
       ited maths support in LaTeX mode, mainly due  to  lack  of
       samples  of mathematics. (I probably should have done this
       using TeX catcode and macro magic, instead of writing spe-
       cial code).

Unfortunately I forgot where did I find it but there is a e-mail of it's 
author in the man page: dps@example.com Duncan Simpson (although man 
page is date as 1st April 1997 I hope this isn't a joke 8-)

Also I can send you the sources I have.

Regards
         Dmytro Kovalev 
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> Hi all,
> 
> I am having a lot of problem receiving several different
> and incompatible files of MS Word (6.0/95 and 97) in our
> group.  I would imagine it the best if we have a converter
> which makes Word [95 or 97] to TeX and vise versa.  Such
> files can be attached to e-mail as "text" rather than
> binary only readable on Windows.
> 
> Anyone ever heard of such converter, preferably a freeware?
> Japanese support is not necessary.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
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