[OS X TeX] LaTeX -> Word?
L. J. Moffitt
moffitt at resecon.umass.edu
Tue Apr 20 10:37:47 EDT 2004
Perhaps here though at a cost:
http://www.ktalk.com/service.html
On Apr 20, 2004, at 10:26 AM, Bruno Voisin wrote:
> Le 20 avr. 04, à 15:32, Thomas Schröder a écrit :
>
>> What I want is a way to convert my LaTeX files into Word files which
>> should work autamatically for the most part.
>
> I think there just isn't any such thing. If you really need to produce
> Word output, with no compromise on the quality of this output (as far
> as Word allows quality, that is) and no extensive manual editing, then
> you'd be better off using Word from the beginning, probably.
>
>> If I still have to adjust a few things manually than that's OK, and I
>> can also live with having to replace all of the images with better
>> quality ones. But all the other things like table of contents,
>> references, bibliography, footnotes, math, greek symbols, German
>> language, figures, tables, tabulars, index, nomenclature should work
>> automatically because if they don't than I guess I'd be faster doing
>> it by hand.
>
> See above.
>
>>> I don't know Word, but I can only suggest that the related program
>>> TtM (costs for Windows, free for Linux---possibly compilable on Mac
>>> OS X) could be used, which translates TeX to HTML + MathML. Then use
>>> the MathML to generate Word's equations.
>>
>> I guess that TtM has the same shortcomings that TtH has i.e. limited
>> support for macros and packages, foreign languages, greek symbols
>> etc.
>
> Following Will's post, I went to the TtM page and tried the online
> conversion with a plain TeX excerpt of mine (less than 2000
> characters, as required). Converting to XML and viewing the result in
> Mozilla gives better-looking output that I would have expected. The
> resulting XML code is appended at the end of this message (save it as
> a .xml file and open it with Mozilla).
>
> However, that's just plain TeX, not LaTeX, and that doesn't solve the
> LaTeX -> Word issue, anyway.
>
>>> I wouldn't have a clue if Word's scripting ability is up to this
>>> kind of translation/transformation, however.
>>
>> I don't really think that Word's scripting ability would be necessary
>> for this. What I don't know is if Word actually understands MathML. I
>> don't think so because if it did then you wouldn't have to use
>> OpenOffice as an intermediate step in creating Word files with fully
>> editable math formulas.
>
> I tried opening both .html and .xml files created by TtM in both Word
> and OpenOffice, with limited success. Word can read bot HTML and XML
> and interprets its content, OpenOffice interprets the HTML and reads
> the XML as ASCII text, but none of them seems to interpret the
> formulae as formulae.
>
> Bruno
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1 plus MathML 2.0//EN"
> "http://www.w3.org/Math/DTD/mathml2/xhtml-math11-f.dtd">
> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
> <head>
> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="TtM 3.59" />
> <style type="text/css">
> div.p { margin-top: 7pt; }
> span.roman {font-family: serif; font-style: normal; font-weight:
> normal;}
> </style>
>
>
> <title> Translation </title>
> </head>
> <body>
>
> <h1 align="center">Translation </h1>
> <h2>You entered the following TeX</h2>
>
> <pre>
> We apply generalized function theory along the lines described, e.g.,
> by Ffowcs
> Williams \& Hawkings (1969) or Farassat (1977). We define
> Heaviside step
> functions according to $H(t) = 1$ for $t > 0$ and $0$ for $t <
> 0$, and $H_V({\bf
> x}) = 1$ for ${\bf x} \in V$ and $0$ for ${\bf x} \notin V$. Writing
> $L =
> (\partial^2/\partial t^2)\nabla^2+N^2\nabla_{\rm h}^2$ we have then,
> for
> $\tilde\chi({\bf x},t) = H_V({\bf x})H(t)\chi({\bf x},t)$,
> $$
> \eqalign{L\tilde\chi({\bf x},t)
> & =H_V({\bf x})H(t)q({\bf x},t)+H_V({\bf x})
> [\nabla^2\chi_1({\bf x})\delta(t)+\nabla^2\chi_0({\bf
> x})\delta'(t)]\cr
> \noalign{\smallskip}
> & \qquad{}+H(t)\biggl\{\biggl({\partial^2\over\partial t^2}
> {\partial\chi\over\partial n}+N^2{\partial\chi\over\partial n_{\rm
> h}}
> \biggr)({\bf x},t)\delta_S({\bf x})+{\partial\over\partial
> n}\biggl[
> {\partial^2\chi\over\partial t^2}({\bf x},t)\delta_S({\bf
> x})\biggr]
> \cr
> & \qquad\qquad{}+N^2{\partial\over\partial n_{\rm h}}[\chi({\bf
> x},t)
> \delta_S({\bf x})]\biggr\}\cr
> & \qquad{}+{\partial\chi_1\over\partial n}({\bf x})\delta_S({\bf
> x})
> \delta(t)+{\partial\chi_0\over\partial n}({\bf x})\delta_S({\bf x})
> \delta'(t)+{\partial\over\partial n}[\chi_1({\bf x})\delta_S({\bf
> x})]
> \delta(t)\cr
> & \qquad\qquad{}+{\partial\over\partial n}[\chi_0({\bf x})
> \delta_S({\bf x})]\delta'(t),\cr}
> $$
> with $\delta_S({\bf x})$ the Dirac delta function of support $S$.
>
> </pre>
> This entire page was translated in real time by TtM.
> <hr />
>
> <h2>TtM Output</h2>We apply generalized function theory along the
> lines described, e.g., by Ffowcs
> Williams & Hawkings (1969) or Farassat (1977). We define Heaviside
> step
> functions according to
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>
> with
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> Dirac delta function of support
> <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML">
> <mrow><mi>S</mi></mrow></math>.
>
> <br /><br /><hr /><small>File translated from
> T<sub><font size="-1">E</font></sub>X
> by <a href="http://hutchinson.belmont.ma.us/tth/">
> T<sub><font size="-1">T</font></sub>M</a>,
> version 3.59.<br />On 20 Apr 2004, 06:45.</small>
> </body></html>
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