Other conversions to and from (La)TeX
- troff
- troff-to-latex, written by Kamal Al-Yahya at Stanford
University (California, USA), assists in the translation of a
troff document into LaTeX format. It recognises most
-ms and -man macros, plus most eqn and some
tbl preprocessor commands. Anything fancier needs to be
done by hand. Two style files are provided. There is also a man page
(which converts very well to LaTeX...). The program is
copyrighted but free.
tr2latex is an enhanced version of this
troff-to-latex.
- WordPerfect
- wp2latex
has recently been much improved, and is now
available either for MSDOS or for Unix systems, thanks to its
current maintainer Jaroslav Fojtik.
- PC-Write
- pcwritex.arc is a
print driver for PC-Write that "prints" a PC-Write
V2.71 document to a TeX-compatible disk file. It was written by Peter
Flynn at University College, Cork, Republic of Ireland.
- runoff
- Peter Vanroose's rnototex
conversion program is written in VMS Pascal.
The sources are distributed with a VAX executable.
- refer/tib
- There are a few programs for converting bibliographic
data between BibTeX and refer/tib formats.
The collection includes a shell script converter from BibTeX to
refer format as well. The collection
is not maintained.
- RTF
- Rtf2tex, by Robert Lupton, is for
converting Microsoft's Rich Text Format to TeX. There is also a
convertor to LaTeX by Erwin Wechtl, called rtf2latex.
The latest converter, by Ujwal Sathyam and Scott Prahl, is
rtf2latex2e; this system seems rather good already, and
is still being improved.
Translation to RTF may be done (for a somewhat
constrained set of LaTeX documents) by TeX2RTF, which
can produce ordinary RTF, Windows Help RTF (as well as
HTML, conversion to HTML).
TeX2RTF is supported on various Unix platforms and under
Windows 3.1
- Microsoft Word
- A rudimentary (free) program for converting
MS-Word to LaTeX is wd2latex, which runs on MSDOS.
Word2TeX and TeX2Word are
shareware translators from
Chikrii Softlab; users' reports are
very positive.
If cost is a constraint, the best bet is probably to use an
intermediate format such as RTF or HTML.
Word outputs and reads both, so in principle this route
may be useful.
Another, unlikely, intermediate form is PDF: Acrobat Reader
for Windows (version 5.0 and later) will output rather feeble
RTF that Word can read.
- Excel
- Excel2Latex converts an Excel file
into a LaTeX
tabular environment; it comes as a
.xls file which defines some Excel macros to produce
output in a new format.
Wilfried Hennings' FAQ,
which deals specifically with conversions between TeX-based formats
and word processor formats, offers much detail as well as tables that
allow quick comparison of features.
A group at Ohio State University (USA) is working on
a common document format based on SGML, with the ambition that any
format could be
translated to or from this one. FrameMaker provides
"import filters" to aid translation from alien formats
(presumably including TeX) to FrameMaker's own.
- excel2latex
- support/excel2latex/xl2latex.zip
- pcwritex.arc
- support/pcwritex (zip, browse)
- refer and tib tools
- biblio/bibtex/utils/refer-tools (zip, browse)
- rnototex
- support/rnototex (zip, browse)
- rtf2latex
- support/rtf2latex (zip, browse)
- rtf2latex2e
- support/rtf2latex2e (zip, browse)
- rtf2tex
- support/rtf2tex (zip, browse)
- tex2rtf
- support/tex2rtf (zip, browse)
- tr2latex
- support/tr2latex (zip, browse)
- troff-to-latex
- support/troff-to-latex (zip, browse)
- wd2latex
- dviware/wd2latex (zip, browse)
- wp2latex
- support/wp2latex (zip, browse)
- Word processor FAQ (source)
-
help/wp-conv (zip, browse)
This question on the Web: http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=fmtconv