Tex Related Converters

Usage:

rtf2LaTeX [options] [RTF-file]

Your options are:
      -c      No character formatting stuff
      -C file Use another translation-file for characters above 128
      -d      Use WORD formates within special WORD styles like heading,
              footnote text, ...
      -H      Use LaTeX header and footer, not as default WORD header
      -h      Help message
      -L file Use another translation-file for specilal WORD styles
              like heading, footer, footnote text, ...
      -n      Use \hfil\break instead of \\ for making a new line
      -p      No paragraph formatting stuff
      -r      No left or right skip
      -s      No tab stops
      -t      No formatting in tables
      -T f    Decrease-factor for the cell-width (default:0.7)
      -u      Change underline to italic
      -v[#]   Turn on verbose messages; the higher #, the more messages
      -V      Print the version number

citation begin>>
 This is a first attempt at an RTF to TeX converter. The parts that handle
 fonts and such like seem to work pretty well, although they could be
 improved, but the table handling is a problem. I had a good deal of trouble
 trying to figure out what particular rtf control codes were supposed to do;
 this makes it hard to convert them into TeX. I have tried to produce good
 TeX, but this is not easy due to the sloppy way that many RTF writers
 generate redundant font and other changes.  Many things are not handled at
 all, more due to my lacking motivation than to their intrinsic
 difficulty. For example, I don't support double columns, but it would be
 easy enough to do (I'd generate a control sequence to do it, and add the TeX
 code required to the TeX_defs file. I even have the TeX somewhere...).
<<citation end

citation begin>>
 Most (all?) RTF is hopelessly unstructured
 (the equivalent of \bf \it Hello \rm World \bf He \it \rm said. )

and the code that I wrote tries valiantly to convert this to something
sensible, in this case {\it Hello\/} World {\bf He} said.

 It is this attempt to make the output TeX usable that makes the code
 complicated...  I did not try to convert equations or tables as I could find
 no adaquate description of either; I don't think that it would be very hard.
<<citation end

citation begin>>
 rtf2LaTeX is a filter built on Paul DuBois' RTF reader that converts RTF
 (Microsoft's Rich Text Format) into LaTeX. rtf2LaTeX expends a good deal of
 effort in an attempt to make the resulting LaTeX maintainable and
 modifiable.
<<citation end

Section: non-free/tex

Description: TeX/LaTeX to HTML converter
LaTeX is popular for specifying complex printed documents. TtH translates
Plain TeX or LaTeX documents into HTML. It quickly produces web documents
that are compact, editable and fast viewing.  TtH translates most equations
instead of converting them into images.  This HTML preserves much format
when imported by MS Word.

Tag: use::editing, works-with::text:tex

# hevea -exec xxdate.exe ...

$ diff -wu1 /usr/share/hevea/latexcommon.hva~ /usr/share/hevea/latexcommon.hva
--- /usr/share/hevea/latexcommon.hva~   2006-05-16 19:53:17.000000000 +0200
+++ /usr/share/hevea/latexcommon.hva    2006-07-19 16:33:47.000000000 +0200
@@ -538,3 +538,4 @@
 %%%%%%%% Format for \today, e.g 31st July, 1980
-\newcommand\today{\english@day\english@month,~\theyear}
+%\newcommand\today{\english@day\english@month,~\theyear}
+\newcommand\today{\english@month{} \theday,~\theyear}
 %%%%%%%%%%%%%% Defined counter printing functions

texf=cdict

latex2html $texf

latex2html -split 0 -nonavigation -dir ~/tmp $texf

cp -v ~/tmp/$texf.* .
dirdir $texf*

latex2html -h

-split num
    Stop making separate files at this depth (say "-split
    0" for one huge HTML file).
-(no)navigation
    Put a navigation panel at the top of each page
    (default).
-(no)show_section_numbers
    When this is set true, the section numbers are shown.
    The section numbers should then match those that would
    have been produced by LaTeX.  The correct section
    numbers are obtained from the $FILE.aux file generated
    by LaTeX.  Hiding the section numbers encourages use
    of particular sections as standalone documents. In
    this case the cross reference to a section is shown
    using the default symbol rather than the section
    number.

$ configure
[...]
Note: Will install...
      ... executables to   : /usr/local/bin
      ... shared library items to : /usr/local/share/lib/latex2html
      ... unshared library items to : /usr/local/lib/latex2html

$ make install
Info: Running /usr/bin/mktexlsr to rebuild ls-R database...
mktexlsr: Updating /usr/share/texmf/ls-R...
mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R...
mktexlsr: Done.

cd /usr/share/latex2html/styles
ls -C | sed 's/\.perl/     /g'
CJK             czech           irish              polski
TEMPLATE        danish          italian            portuges
afrikaan        dutch           j-article          psfrag
alltt           english         j-book             psfrag.jp1.4
american        enumerate       j-report           report
amsart          epsbox          japanese           rgb.txt
amsbook         epsfig          jarticle           romanian
amsfonts        esperant        jbook              scottish
amsmath         estonian        jreport            seminar
amssymb         finnish         jsarticle          slides
amstex          floatfig        jsbook             slovak
article         floatflt        jslides            slovene
ascmac          frames          justify            spanish
austrian        francais        latexsym           supertabular
babel           french          letter             texdefs
babelbst        galician        longtable          texnames
bahasa          german          lsorbian           textcomp
book            germanb         lyx                turkish
brazil          graphics        magyar             usorbian
breton          graphicx        makeidx            verbatim
catalan         harvard         more_amsmath       verbatimfiles
changebar       havard          multicol           webtex
chemsym         heqn            natbib             welsh
color           hthtml          nharvard           wrapfig
colordvi        html            norsk              xspace
crayola.txt     htmllist        nynorsk            xy
croatian        inputenc        polish

Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Date: 2000/03/19

> The date is formatted in latex2html.bat (for windows version 99.2beta6)

> To change the date format look for the lines:
> # Author address
> @address data = &address data('ISO');
>
> Get rid of 'ISO' on the second line to read
> # Author address
> @address data = &address data();
>
> This change gives the American date format mm/dd/yyyy.
> To change this find the subroutine:
> sub get date {
>
> and at the end change the line
>
> } else { sprintf("%d/%d/%d", $m+1, $d, 1900+$y); } to
> } else { sprintf("%d/%d/%d", $d, $m+1, 1900+$y); }
>
> You can also change the / in this line if you wish.

 > There's an interesting discussion of this issue at
 > http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/latex2html/1997-08/msg00100.ht[] ml
 > and you'll probably be able to use it to come up with a better solution
.

>and it does just what i want!

$ diff -wu /usr/share/latex2html/styles/english.perl~ /usr/share/latex2html/styles/english.perl
--- /usr/share/latex2html/styles/english.perl~  2003-02-18 22:13:01.000000000 -0500
+++ /usr/share/latex2html/styles/english.perl   2004-01-28 21:07:52.000000000 -0500
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@

 sub english_today {
     local($today) = &get_date();
-    $today =~ s|(\d+)/0?(\d+)/|$2 $Month[$1] |;
+    $today =~ s|(\d+)/0?(\d+)/|$Month[$1] $2, |;
     join('',$today,$_[0]);
 }

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

   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}'.

   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.

   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).

   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.

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

   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.

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

make

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

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

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

Read carefully the text file: ltx2rtf.doc

./ltx2rtf srsm-nt.tex

cp ltx2rtf & its .conf to /opt/bin

$ ltx2rtf tongsun.tex
Segmentation fault

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

 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

Newsgroups: comp.text.tex

> editors want it in Word.

pstotext ~/dl/mustH_b/wp/latex/learn/epslatex.ps > ~/tmp/ps/txt/epslatex.txt

> I want to extract just the plain text from a Latex document. I was
> wondering whether anyone knew a tool or
> program that could do this for me?

>Are there any tools to take a LaTeX file, and convert it in a human
>readable Text document?  I have used deTeX but it seems to ignore/skip
>some fields such as  "verbatim", which it simply does not print in the
>text file.