cmd:latex2rtf

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Examples

latex2rtf foo              convert foo.tex to foo.rtf
latex2rtf <foo >foo.RTF    convert foo to foo.RTF
latex2rtf -M12 foo         replace equations with bitmaps
latex2rtf -i russian foo   assume russian tex conventions
latex2rtf -C raw foo       retain font encoding in rtf file
latex2rtf -d4 foo          lots of debugging information

Info

Latex to Rtf Converter

Description

LaTeX to RTF convertor written in GNU C, text mode (no GUI), aimed at platform independence

Source

http://sourceforge.net/projects/latex2rtf/

Help

Quick Help

 Usage:  latex2rtf [options] input[.tex]

Options:
  -a auxfile       use LaTeX auxfile rather than input.aux
  -b bblfile       use BibTex bblfile rather than input.bbl)
  -C codepage      latex encoding charset (latin1, cp850, raw, etc.)
  -d level         debugging output (level is 0-6)
  -F               use LaTeX to convert all figures to bitmaps
  -D dpi           number of dots per inch for bitmaps
  -h               display help
  -i language      idiom or language (e.g., german, french)
  -l               use latin1 encoding (default)
  -M #              math equation handling
       -M1          displayed equations to RTF
       -M2          inline equations to RTF
       -M3          inline and displayed equations to RTF (default)
       -M4          displayed equations to bitmap
       -M6          inline equations to RTF and displayed equations to bitmaps
       -M8          inline equations to bitmap
       -M12         inline and displayed equations to bitmaps
       -M16         insert Word comment field that the original equation text
  -o outputfile    file for RTF output
  -p               option to avoid bug in Word for some equations
  -P /path/to/cfg  directory containing .cfg files
  -S               use ';' to separate args in RTF fields
  -se#             scale factor for bitmap equations
  -sf#             scale factor for bitmap figures
  -T /path/to/tmp  temporary directory
  -v               version information
  -V               version information
  -W               include warnings in RTF
  -Z #             add # of '}'s at end of rtf file (# is 0-9)

Detail Help

In /usr/local/share/latex2rtf/latex2rtf.html

Version 1.9.16a, 2004-11-17 03:55

v1.9.15, 2004-02-08

Version 1.9.14, November 28, 2002

File size

550 kb

Supported styles

LaTeX2e

   LaTeX2RTF  understands most of the commands introduced with LaTeX2e
.  It supports both the old 2.09 version of
`\documentstyle[options]{format#}' and the newer
`\documentclass[options]{format}'.

Input Encoding

   It is not necesary to specify the `-C' option if you use
`\usepackage{isolatin1}' or `\documentstyle[isolatin1]{...}'. LaTeX2RTF
automagically detects these packages/style options and switches to
processing of ISO-Latin1 codes.

Language Support

Many languages from the Babel package are supported. However, the support is limited to translate various words usually emitted by LaTeX during processing. For example, this ensures that the LaTeX2RTF will provide the correct translation of the word "Chapter" in the converted document.

Cross References

   Cross references include everything that you might expect and then
some: bibliographic citations, equation references, table references,
figure references, and section references.  Section, equation, table
and figure references are implemented by placing RTF bookmarks around
the equation number (or table number or figure number).

Equations

   There are four separate levels of equation translation based on the -M
switch.  Each equation is now converted either to an EQ field or to a bitmap.

Tables

   The table code is currently barely working.  It needs to be
rewritten.

Graphics

   There is now rudimentary support for `\includegraphics'.  Three file
types will be inserted into the RTF file without needing conversion:
.pict, .jpeg, and .png files.  EPS files are converted to PNG using
`convert' from the ImageMagick package.

Pagestyles

   If there is no `\pagestyle' command, the RTF output is generated as
with plain pagestyle, i.e. each page get's its page number centered at
the bottom.

   You must turn this off with the \pagestyle{empty} command in the
LaTeX  file if you don't want pagenumbers.  The headings and myheadings
styles are silently ignored by now.  The twosided option to the
\documentstyle or \documentclass produces the corresponding RTF tokens.
Note that these features require RTF Version 1.4.

Hyperlatex

   Hyperlatex support is largely broken at the moment, but continues to
improve.

Comments

unable to use comment package

Warning line=5 Unknown style option comment ignored{
Error! line=6 \begin{comment} found before \begin{document}.  Giving up.  Sorry

Warning line=6 Mismatched '{' in RTF file, Conversion may cause problems.
Warning line=6 Try translating with 'latex2rtf -Z1 (null)'}

$ latex2rtf -Z1 < textest.tex > /tmp/textest.rtf

Warning line=5 Unknown style option comment ignored{
Error! line=6 \begin{comment} found before \begin{document}.  Giving up.  Sorry

Warning line=6 Mismatched '{' in RTF file, Conversion may cause problems.}
}

Build

make

Test Run

make check
  -- expect warnings but no errors

cd test
  -- view generated rtf files