I gather you do not run a Unix box, but both Mac OSX and Windows come close enough. I can't help with Mac OSX, but I'm willing to try compiling those utilities for Cygwin (a *nix environment on top of Windows) -- if you tell a bit more about what you intend to use it for.
Up-conversion of legacy documentation? One-time or continuously? Why involve FrameMaker at all? Would it be easier if you reversed the process, or introduced another exchange/storage format? For some specialized purposes, going for an XML exchange/storage format might be more attractive. E.g. for reference documentation traditionally produced from nroff/troff/groff with the 'man' macro package, DocBook XML might be a good exchange format. man pages can readily be produced from DocBook XML 'refentry', there is a number of utilities that extract embedded source code documentation and emit DocBook refentry, and DocBook XML can be typeset in a number of ways -- including FrameMaker. LaTeX is based on TeX, which can be considered a programming language (it is Turing-complete). This implies that you actually need TeX to 'translate' arbitrary LaTeX documents into something else. In principle, the best way to translate LaTeX to FrameMaker would be a TeX compiler that produces MIF output rather than DVI. MicroPress' TeXpider [1] works this way to produce HTML from pretty much arbitrary TeX. But most converters assume that your LaTeX documents is plain and simple, i.e. can be interpreted by a mock interpreter. A number of TeX-to-something converters are listed here [2][3]. kind regards Peter Ring [1] http://www.micropress-inc.com/webb/wbstart.htm [2] http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=fmtconv [3] http://www.tug.org/utilities/texconv/textopc.html 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 have found MIF to LaTeX and LaTeX to MML here: > > <http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~kjt/software/framemaker/> > > 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 >
