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Re: Convert Word/html/pdf/ps to TeX
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Alex Vinokur <alexvn at connect dot to>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 09:53:39 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Convert Word/html/pdf/ps to TeX
- References: <cj8bpv$hce$1@sea.gmane.org>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Alex Vinokur wrote:
> Does Cygwin hold any tools to convert Word/html/pdf/ps to TeX?
In general it's not possible to recover the document structure from
html/pdf/rtf/ps. You may be able to write a perl script that converts
HTML/RTF formatting tags to LaTeX formatting statements, but it'll be just
as hacked up as the PostScript that Word produces... :-D
Igor
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