On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 04:16:06PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
> (Unfortunately the way from word to LaTeX is not nearly that efficient
> if not impossible.)

Not at all. IIRC, Abiword can both import DOC and export LaTeX.

On the other hand, if you want *nice* LaTeX, you'll have to try a bit
harder; Abiword seems to try to preserve as much of the formatting as
possible, rather than just letting TeX deal with it.

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Benjamin A'Lee wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 04:16:06PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
>> (Unfortunately the way from word to LaTeX is not nearly that efficient
>> if not impossible.)
>
> Not at all. IIRC, Abiword can both import DOC and export LaTeX.
>
> On the other hand, if you want *nice* LaTeX, you'll have to try a bit
> harder; Abiword seems to try to preserve as much of the formatting as
> possible, rather than just letting TeX deal with it.

The last time I tried, the result was very poor and didn't work for me.
I don't expect that such a conversion is 'perfect', but it was much more
effort to turn abiword's latex into 'reasonable' latex than to start
from plain text.

My humble opinion,

Johannes
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