Word-to-LaTex on linux?
Dear list, Has anyone had any success running Word-to-Latex converter, mentioned on contextgarden, on linux? In theory it should be possible using wine and winetricks. Piotr -- -- Piotr Kopszak, Ph.D. Polish Art Gallery, National Museum in Warsaw -----------------------------> http://kopszak.mnw.art.pl/ http://www.magnatune.com/artists/altri_stromenti
On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 11:31:19AM +0200, Piotr Kopszak wrote:
Dear list,
Has anyone had any success running Word-to-Latex converter, mentioned on contextgarden, on linux? In theory it should be possible using wine and winetricks.
Piotr
Replying to myself. Before trying on my linux box I asked my administrator to install it on a windows box and it fails even to load its own configuration file when I try to use as ordinary user. Is it really worth the effort at all? Piotr
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Piotr Kopszak, Ph.D. Polish Art Gallery, National Museum in Warsaw -----------------------------> http://kopszak.mnw.art.pl/ http://www.magnatune.com/artists/altri_stromenti
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-- -- Piotr Kopszak, Ph.D. Polish Art Gallery, National Museum in Warsaw -----------------------------> http://kopszak.mnw.art.pl/ http://www.magnatune.com/artists/altri_stromenti
On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 02:03:43PM +0200, Piotr Kopszak wrote:
On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 11:31:19AM +0200, Piotr Kopszak wrote:
Dear list,
Has anyone had any success running Word-to-Latex converter, mentioned on contextgarden, on linux? In theory it should be possible using wine and winetricks.
Piotr
Replying to myself. Before trying on my linux box I asked my administrator to install it on a windows box and it fails even to load its own configuration file when I try to use as ordinary user. Is it really worth the effort at all?
Piotr
Did you visit the homepage http://kebrt.webz.cz/programs/word-to-latex/ to check the prerequisites? I tried it out for somebody else, and with word, mathtype and net1.1 installed it did quite a nice job. It is basically a Word macro, even though you can call it from outside Word (which is not recommended). -- Siep Kroonenberg
On Mon, 7 Jul 2008, Piotr Kopszak wrote:
On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 11:31:19AM +0200, Piotr Kopszak wrote:
Dear list,
Has anyone had any success running Word-to-Latex converter, mentioned on contextgarden, on linux? In theory it should be possible using wine and winetricks.
Piotr
Replying to myself. Before trying on my linux box I asked my administrator to install it on a windows box and it fails even to load its own configuration file when I try to use as ordinary user. Is it really worth the effort at all?
I had once tried TeX2Word from chiriii software (http://www.chikrii.com/) and converted a 20 page double column paper with a lot of math from Word to LaTeX. The conversion was excellent. I had to redo most of the math by hand, but I think that it was more because of the way the math was originally input (array instead of align, etc). Aditya
On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 11:31:19AM +0200, Piotr Kopszak wrote:
Has anyone had any success running Word-to-Latex converter, mentioned on contextgarden, on linux? In theory it should be possible using wine and winetricks.
I have converted from Word to LaTeX a lot! -- book length documents. I usually find it easier to manually do the conversion: 1) adding commands and inter-paragraph spacing in the word file where I can still see the visual formatting; 2) cut and paste the text from the Word file into WinEdt or EMACS, and 3) use the text editor's global replace feature to convert en-dashes into --, smart quotes into `` and '', etc. I have occasionally whipped together a small editor macro to do repetitive tasks during the conversion. I find that this approach takes less time (or at least less mental anguish) than learning a conversion program and then fixing its output. If have always thought that I might find a conversion program useful if my documents included much math (they don't) -- until someone else in this thread suggested that the conversion program didn't work so well for the math. My approach noted above is in the context having used a couple of different conversion programs in the past -- one freeware and one commercial. Of course, I have been writing, debugging, and rewriting computer programs for decades, so tweaking things with a text editor feels like a pretty natural approach to me.
On Monday 07 July 2008 05:31:19 am Piotr Kopszak wrote:
Dear list,
Has anyone had any success running Word-to-Latex converter, mentioned on contextgarden, on linux? In theory it should be possible using wine and winetricks.
Piotr
I upload a doc file into Open Office Writer, save it as rtf and then run the program rtf2latex2e. The reult isn't perfect but it gives you a starting point. Other conversion tools found with e.g., Kword, Abiword etc. don't seem to work as well. For client work I just save the doc or pdf as text and start from there. The Adobe Acrobat Reader has a good text save function. -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf http://www.creativemindspress.com/newbiefaq.htm http://www.gropenassoc.com/TopLevelPages/reference%20desk.htm
Le 07 juillet à 11:31:19 Piotr Kopszak
| Has anyone had any success running Word-to-Latex converter, mentioned on contextgarden, on linux? In theory it should be possible using wine and winetricks.
| Piotr I use writer2latex, which has to be integrated into OpenOffice; when it's done, just open your word (or ODF) document with OpenOffice and export to LaTeX; does a good job if you choose the «clean» or better, «ultraclean» option. cheers, -- Jean
participants (6)
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Aditya Mahajan -
David C. Walden -
Jean Magnan de Bornier -
John Culleton -
Piotr Kopszak -
Siep Kroonenberg