On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 11:59:02 +1000
Alan L Tyree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I have a rather large latex file (40,000 lines) that will soon need to
> go to a publisher who is accustomed to receiving MSWord files.

I have my resume in latex and all the recruiter parasites insist
on .doc. My solution was to use latex2html to generate nice clean
HTML, then pass that through a python script to cleanup a few little
things and finaly rename the  HTML file to .doc. That  manages to 
fool most recruiter parasites and msword.

The above might be a solution.

The other thing I was going to suggest is to find another publisher.
I co-authored a Linux book a number of years ago (before OOo) and 
the publisher had decided to use staroffice when working with its
Linux authors.

> Latex2rtf chokes on the file (works on other smaller files) with no
> very useful information.

Yep, I had no usefult results out of that either.

> Is there some handy xhtml --> rtf converter?
> Or someway to use OpenOffice.org? OO can read the xhtml file w/o
> problem, but I don't see how to spit it out in a useful format.

OOo can definitely read the HTML and can then spit out word
files in a number of different versions.

Erik

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