On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 13:36:40 +1000 Erik de Castro Lopo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. Clever - I'll give it a try. > > 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. Not an option, I'm afraid. This is the 5th edition of the work and I can't begin to imagine the legal consequences of trying to change. Although I would like to see some faces when someone suggests moving because of file formats!! > > > 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. I get it to read OK, but then the only export option is to PDF. Version 1.1.2. Thanks Erik, > > Erik > > -- > +-----------------------------------------------------------+ > Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yes it's valid) > +-----------------------------------------------------------+ > "Ever since GNOME development began, I have urged people to aim > to make it as good as the Macintosh. To try to be like Windows > is to try for second-best." - Richard Stallman > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- ------------------------------------------------------ Alan L Tyree http://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan Tel: +61 2 4782 2670 Mobile: +61 405 084 990 Fax: +61 2 4782 7092 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
