Right for example what format elements does latextortf recognize and what elements does it just ignore? Does it understand fancyhdr, setspace, geometry, etc? Justin On 03-03-2012, at 12:06, Michael Whapples wrote: > I was aware that there are tools for converting to other formats, I guess I am just cautious of how well they work. > > As an aside, I know that there are some differences between RTF and word document format, however I don't know much of the differences, may be you could list the key ones. > > Michael Whapples > > -----Original Message----- From: Chris Brannon > Sent: Friday, March 02, 2012 11:46 AM > To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. > Subject: Re: LaTeX and big writing projects > > "Michael Whapples" <mwhapples at aim.com> writes: > >> I have to agree with Liz though, you may come across times where the >> expected format means using LaTeX is not possible (eg. I am studying >> with the Open University and I must submit my project report as a word >> document or RTF). > > Here's what you do. Run latex2rtf to produce a .rtf file from your > LaTeX source. If they want an actual .doc file, then just rename > document.rtf to document.doc, and send that to them. Most people don't > know the difference, and neither does Microsoft Word. It will open the > .rtf file without complaint, even though it has the wrong extension. > This is what I do when people ask for Word documents from me, and it > works like a charm. > > -- Chris > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
