Steve Rickaby wrote: > Without having thoroughly thought it through, it seems possible in principle > to construct a LaTeX to MIF filter using a default template. Does anyone know > if this has ever been tried? Sources?
I haven't had to. If anything I have had to go back the other way (since the demise of FM on the Mac most Mac-based work is now LaTeX). > > I have found MIF to LaTeX and LaTeX to MML here: > > <http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~kjt/software/framemaker/> I have used some of the tools on there before, with moderate success. > > The Athena site at MIT seems to have cracked this, but using proprietary apps > running in a Unix command line and going via MML: > > % la2mml filename1.tex | mmltomif > filename2.mif Would be relatively trivial to make this into a shell script, negating the need for a pipe. Probably, the existence of the LaTeX->MML translators rather than LaTeX->MIF has occurred because both LaTeX and MML use ascii only, whereas, while MIF also uses ascii, it can also include binary data. Hence the second step, MML->MIF. Alan