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ltx2rtf-5-0.zip                          1094 Kb
Version 5.0, revision: 2.36, date: 27 November 2000- 22:08:40

mainly for windows user, w/ all sorts of .exe and .bat files.

Source

http://www.tug.org/utilities/texconv/ltx2rtf.html
http://www.tug.org/utilities/texconv/ltx2rtf3.html
This description is of Sept. 1999, as of 2002.07.04 Thu.

ftp://ftp.lps.u-psud.fr/pub/ltx2rtf/

http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/ltx2rtf/

ltx2rtf.zip  22-Dec-1998 07:00 1.0M
As of 2002.07.04 Thu.

Build, Test run & Installation

Steps

$ md ltx2rtf   # ! no root dir in the zip file!

For linux, an executable is readily provided (compiled with RedHat 6.1), and a Makefile is provided.

Help

Read carefully the text file: ltx2rtf.doc

Configuration & Twisting

Make sure that the configuration files - direct.cfg, - fonts.cfg, - ignore.cfg, - config.cfg are in the correct directory: . either the same directory as the executable, . or the LIBDIR directory stated in the Makefile . or the directory stated by environemt variable RTFPATH.

Test Run

in dir

./ltx2rtf srsm-nt.tex

from /opt/bin

cp ltx2rtf & its .conf to /opt/bin

$ ltx2rtf tongsun.tex
Segmentation fault

$ export RTFPATH=/opt/bin
$ ltx2rtf tongsun.tex
Segmentation fault

comments

exp-macr

 ltx2rtf DOES NOT expand macros. Nor does it consider \usepackage
specifications. However, the exp-macr routine (in F77) performs
expansion of simple macros defined (with \def or \newcommand or
\renewcommand) inside de given LaTeX source.

exp-macr original.tex expanded.tex

expands all macros defined in "original.tex" to "expanded.tex", which is likely to be fit for surbmitting to ltx2rtf. Besides, exp-macr also expands the \input commands found in the given original source. This means that specific macro definitions can be included in a separate file, included in the whole document.

exp-macr is not included in the gcc-g77 RH7.2 rpm package. Search on the Internet for "exp-macr" failed, as of 2002.07.04 Thu. All links are broken.

"http://www.tug.org/texlive/" does not release its CD content any more(?).

Overall comments

Generally acceptable
Some bullets spread to 2 lines, but others are ok make the bullet and the content be on the same line solved the problem.
the width of Job experience table is not good, but the width of the top table is ok.
```
delete the table width parameter.
Error: Missing p-arg in array arg.
```

Working on tables

Fails on multicolumn

&
%\multicolumn{2}{p{4.5in}}{
Led a web-based ...
% \newline }

Removing '&' and uncommenting '%' will cause 'segmentation fault'.

tabular*

1<<, >>

  \begin{center}  % put inside center environment
  \begin{tabular*}{0.75\textwidth}%
  ...
  \end{tabular*}
  \end{center}

Output taken from LaTeX name: ttt.rtf

Begin of environment: TABULAR*
/opt/bin/ltx2rtf: ERROR: Illegal dimension unit '' at line 0
Program aborted

2<<, >>

  \begin{center}  % put inside center environment
  \begin{tabular*}{5in}%
     {@{\extracolsep{\fill}}cccr}
  label 1 & label 2 & label 3 & label 4 \\
  \hline  % put a line under headers
  item 1  & item 2  & item 3  & item 4  \\
  ...
  \end{tabular*}
  \end{center}

Output taken from LaTeX name: ttt.rtf

Begin of environment: TABULAR*
WARNING: command: extracolsep at line 12 not found - ignored
WARNING: command: fill at line 12 not found - ignored
WARNING:  & not in tabular environment, ignored
WARNING:  & not in tabular environment, ignored
WARNING:  & not in tabular environment, ignored
WARNING: command: hline at line 14 not found - ignored
WARNING:  & not in tabular environment, ignored
WARNING:  & not in tabular environment, ignored
WARNING:  & not in tabular environment, ignored
Segmentation fault