[texhax] TeX v. Word, etc.
Tom Schneider
toms at ncifcrf.gov
Mon Aug 21 18:26:44 CEST 2006
> Take a Word file from 20 years ago and try to read it with any
> software around today.
Can anyone give some real examples where you actually try this and
report what happened? We struggled at one point merely to get a Wordy
file from PC to the Mac (and failed). Could the file be read by
OpenOffice? If so it could be exported as RTF [Really Terrible
Format] and then converted with rtf2latex.
http://www.ccrnp.ncifcrf.gov/~toms/papers/primer/italian/
> I recently took a paper of mine from 1986, written for an early
> version of Latex2.
I did a similar translation from Troff to Latex2e ...
http://www.ccrnp.ncifcrf.gov/~toms/papers/schneider1986/
Tom
Dr. Thomas D. Schneider
National Institutes of Health
National Cancer Institute
Center for Cancer Research Nanobiology Program
Molecular Information Theory Group
Frederick, Maryland 21702-1201
toms at ncifcrf.gov
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