1 2+++++ Announcing Tex2RTF +++++ 3+++++ A Free LaTeX to RTF, Windows Help RTF, and HTML converter +++++ 4 5Purpose 6======= 7 8 * Allows you to maintain manuals in printed and hypertext formats. 9 10 * Allows conversion of existing LaTeX documents to word processor 11 formats (usually some 'tweaking' is required to conform to 12 Tex2RTF restrictions). 13 14Input 15===== 16 17A LaTeX subset with some additional hypertext macros; no maths, 18minimal table support. 19 20Caveat: Please do not expect to convert arbitrary LaTex files without 21editing: this is not the primary intention of Tex2RTF. Success converting 22existing LaTeX depends on your expectations and the style in which 23the LaTeX was written. Tex2RTF does not accept pure TeX (non-LaTeX) 24documents. 25 26Output 27====== 28 29 * ordinary RTF 30 31 * Windows Help hypertext RTF 32 33 * HTML (the World Wide Web hypertext format) 34 35 * wxHTML Help (the wxWidgets GUI library help file format) 36 37Installation 38============ 39 40Under Windows, please run the supplied install.exe program. The Tex2RTF 41manual itself serves as an example input file, in the docs subdirectory 42with various .sty, .ini, and .gif files that you may need for your 43own documents. See the online manual for further details. 44 45Platforms supported 46=================== 47 48 * Windows (all 32-bit desktop versions) 49 50 * Any Unix supporting wxWidgets 51 52 * Mac OS X 53 54Where to get it 55=============== 56 57The latest version of Tex2RTF can be accessed by anonymous ftp 58from: 59 60 ftp://biolpc22.york.ac.uk/pub/tex2rtf 61 62The WWW pages are at: 63 64 http://www.wxwidgets.org/tex2rtf 65 66Tex2RTF was developed using the free, cross-platform GUI toolkit 67wxWidgets, at http://www.wxwidgets.org. To compile Tex2RTF 68for platforms for which there are no Tex2RTF binaries, 69you need to download an appropriate version of wxWidgets, 70configure and compile the library, then compile Tex2RTF 71in utils/tex2rtf/src. 72 73------------------------------------------------------------------ 74Julian Smart, August 2002 75julian.smart@btopenworld.com 76 77 78 79