[OS X TeX] Word to LaTeX

[Simon Spiegel]

On 05.12.2005, at 09:23, Friedrich Vosberg wrote:

> Am 05.12.2005 um 00:10 schrieb Simon Spiegel:
>
>> On 04.12.2005, at 23:57, Morten Høgholm wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, 04 Dec 2005 23:53:29 +0100, Simon Spiegel  
>>> <simon at simifilm.ch> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Well, that's not really what I'm interested in. The route I had  
>>>> in mind would be – if it worked – much cleaner.
>>>
>>> The starting point for converting from other formats is <http:// 
>>> www.tug.org/utilities/texconv/index.html>.
>>
>> ... starting from a somewhat structured XML file would make the  
>> conversion a lot easier ...
>                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> My experience with Word files and Word users is, that they never  
> ever use a really _logically_ markup. The documents are overfull by  
> double linebreaks instead of paragraph breaks, tabs instead of  
> indents, bold and underlined characters instead of real headers.
>
> How should LaTeX recognize a logical structure in such documents to  
> convert them right?
>

Of course this would only work if one sticks to styles religiosly,  
thats what the worml2latex stylesheet is meant for. But in the end,  
that's anyway the only way to use Word in a reasonably productive way.

simon


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