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Re: Software For Book Writing



On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 09:25:40PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 06:55:51AM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:
> > Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > >On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 06:04:03PM -0700, TW wrote:
>  >
> > >There seems to be a module that converts LaTex into just about anything,
> > 
> > Can it convert from latex to odt format? I have spent quite a bit of 
> > time unsuccessfully searching for something that would do it without 
> > causing a lot of grief. Please point me to it. It would be a life saver 
> > in those cases where people insist on receiving documents in .doc 
> > format. Last time, I ended up making the document in OpenOffice and 
> > exporting it as word. It was a pain (the writing part, not the export).
>  
> tex4ht's oolatex command would seem to make odt which you could bring
> into OpenOffice and then export as whatever.  I've never used OO or MSW
> and never seen an ODT file.  I have used tex4ht to make an html file (as
> a test to see that it works).

If you have word, there seems to be a module for it called tex2doc that
allows word to import .tex files directly.

Doug.


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