[OS X TeX] Tex to rtf converter

[Alain Schremmer]

On Aug 4, 2010, at 5:11 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:

>
> On Aug 4, 2010, at 11:33 AM, Alain Schremmer wrote:
>
>> On Aug 4, 2010, at 1:02 PM, Peter Dyballa wrote:
>>
>>> And this to create HTML output:
>>>
>>> 	#!/bin/tcsh -f
>>> 	set path=($path <path to executables of your TeX distribution>  
>>> <path to where latex2html was installed>)
>>> 	latex2html "$1"
>>
>> I, of course, could not.
>>
>> But, if that is all there is to it, why is isn't it already there?
>
> Maybe because latex2html and latex2rtf aren't part of TeX Live or  
> MacTeX.
>
>> Criminal negligence?
>
> Was this necessary?
>
> http://mattgemmell.com/2008/12/08/what-have-you-tried
>
> http://mikeash.com/getting_answers.html
>
> http://catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>
>> Also, since I have no idea what the above means, could you give as  
>> an example the complete engine which is in your own TeXShop?
>
> Do you actually need this?  Have you tried using Google and  
> TeXShop's help?  Have you looked at the engine scripts that are  
> shipped with TeXShop?
>
> http://ftp2.pl.freebsd.org/pub/TeX/TeXShop/texshop%202.26/ 
> TeXShop.app/Contents/Resources/Dutch.lproj/TeXShopHelp/pgs/ 
> advanced_addengine.htm

I guess I deserve this.

All I can say is that I have tried, several times in fact, but, being  
terminally terminal-challenged, have only been able to use  
SimpleTeX4ht on a rather simple document and with only partial results.

Regards
--schremmer