[OS X TeX] latex2rtf bug?

Adam R. Maxwell amaxwell at mac.com
Fri Aug 3 10:54:32 EDT 2007


On Aug 3, 2007, at 07:23, Peter Dyballa wrote:

> Am 03.08.2007 um 16:09 schrieb Nathan Paxton:
>
>> Does anyone have any idea how to fix this problem?
>
> Go back to a LaTeX from last millennium!

Was that supposed to be helpful or snide?

> That's the problem with all those "translators:" they're not really  
> up-to-date and some are limited to a number of hard-wired  
> commands ... how can you otherwise translator from A to B when you  
> don't know the mapping? An approach to start from a DVI or PDF file  
> would be simpler, I think.

In my case, latex2rtf allowed me to use LaTeX/BibTeX for my  
dissertation, because my advisor required Word-compatible output with / 
editable/ equations.  Starting with DVI or PDF for each revision would  
have been impossible.

-- 
Adam

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