There have been the la_mml templates and stuff around for a while:
http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~kjt/software/framemaker/
I think a better approach (depending upon how many unique FM functions
and formats you require) might be to export the text to rtf or xml and
take that into a LaTeX environment. If you use XML, you might want to
consider xelatex because it has better support for UTF8.
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=xetex
rtf2latex2e has been around a while now and does a reasonable job of
converting to LaTeX, but of course, you will need to manually fix tables
and such. There is always a certain amount of cleaning up required.
http://rtf2latex2e.sourceforge.net/
The biggest issue (always the case) is the large number of possible
combinations of style and format in the source document and how these
are to be translated through a common filter. This is where any of the
scripted solutions tend to have their weak points. If, however, you are
anything like me and tend to use similarly named styles and formats over
the years, then using named output formats for conversion is made
simpler. That may mean changing the scripts to suit.
The beauty of TeX and friends is that there are virtually unlimited
options available when defining and redefining macros. For the unwary,
that is also its downside. That means too, that a lot (and I mean a
lottt) can be scripted if automation is desired.
So, if you have a large number of files that need conversion and they
are somewhat similar in style. You might want to consider creating a
batch process to dump all the files out as text and then run them all
through a conversion filter. After that, you have look for anomalies as
d/required.
Alan
On 29/05/13 8:27 AM, Syed Zaeem Hosain ([email protected]) wrote:
Hi, all.
As the subject says ... a MIF (or binary-FM) to TeX would be a good tool!
LaTeX would be far more useful, but I suspect that getting a clean fit from _any_ given
FM file to templates in LaTeX might be difficult. Getting the output "close
enough" would be workable, as long as I could tweak the output files to make them
work out well in LaTeX.
In my search to reduce my dependency on FrameMaker (because of the recent Adobe
pricing and cloud decisions), I am hoping to change my 17+ years of FrameMaker
files to another format. I have used LaTeX in the distant past, and for 90% of
my specifications written in FrameMaker, it would be a completely workable
solution! The remaining ones could be moved to Word.
Z
P.S.: Jeremy (hoping you are reading this e-mail), does Mif2Go perhaps support
output in TeX? Or any possible plans to do so?
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