Hi Ro Wiijkejak, There are several ways around this:
1) Your #1 is wrong. You can keep using AbiWord, except script it on the command line: abiword --to html file.doc This results in file.html being produced. Not too shabby, and the HTML output is visually stunning. abiword --to latex file.doc This results in file.latex being produced. NB: the output to TeX probabl isn't visually close enough for your needs, nor will it honor things like graphics. 2) You might want to check out another program of mine: wvWare. wvWare can save MSFT word docs into HTML and LaTeX, amongst other things. wvWare is a sister project to AbiWord, and AbiWord uses wvWare for its MSFT Word DOC import and export. wvWare's programs to convert DOC->HTML and DOC->LaTeX are absolutely tremendous. Note that #2 won't solve your WP9 problem. You'll probably be best with some combination of suggestions #1 and #2, but how you proceed is up to you. Dom On Tue, 2002-04-23 at 18:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I'm helping a friend move over 700 chemical documents over to linux. We want to put >these documents on the web for free use for everyone, but we're having some problems. > > We're sick to death of dealing with CIH viruses (that threaten to destroy the >motherboards), and with buggy Win98 computers. > > Every 4 months I do a full format and reinstall of Win98, just so that my friend can >do some _real work_. > > That's insanity. > > This has been going on for at least 4 years, and now I feel like I know enough linux >and programming to beat this. > > This is the type of documents we have: > > MS Word97 > Wordperfect 2000 (also known as 9) > > All documents include equations, superscript and subscripts, and a lot of chemical >formulae, as well as graphics. > > I'm going to make a simple front end to LaTeX using Tcl/Tk, and key bindings so its >easy to write chemical formulae. > > Here are some solutions that I've thought of: > > 1) Export everything to HTML using the export features, and then convert that HTML >to LaTeX using a script that I'll write. This means that for over 700 documents I >gotta click, File->Save As->HTML and then run the script over the doc. > > 2) Either make(!!!) or find a decent program to convert MSWord97 and WP9 to LaTeX >(including saving all elements of the documents that I mentioned previously. > > 3) Convert all documents to WP5.1 and then convert to LaTeX, since there are some >programs that can do this. > > I would love and appreciate any feedback on how best to do this. > > You'll not only be helping me, but also some students who will be able to learn >chemistry online, for free.
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