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TeX/LaTeX Conversion
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Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 1:28:31 PM

The information in this document applies to:
WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

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Solutions: Listed below is information regarding converting between Tex/LaTeX and documents containing mathematical equations and WordPerfect. Tex/LaTeX is a markup language commonly used in academic environments for typesetting.
There are a handful of freeware utilities available at anonymous FTP sites on the Internet that can translate from WordPerfect format to TeX, but no freeware utilities to go the opposite direction (commercial product listed below)--from TeX or LaTeX to WordPerfect, or even to another widely used microcomputer word processing file format like Microsoft's Rich Text Format.

The list of WordPerfect to TeX/LaTeX conversion utilities available via anonymous FTP sites on the Internet, from the TeX-FAQ-supplement by Guoying Chen (chenguo@lab.ultra.nyu.edu), occasionally posted to comp.text.tex.

wp2latex aisun1.ai.uga.edu /ai.misc
      WordPerfect 5.1 to LaTeX converter by E. C. Houtepen, further modified by Glenn Geers and then by Michael A. Covington

wp2latex archive.cs.ruu.nl Handles WordPerfect 5.0
131.211.80.5 pub/TEX/wp2latex.arc

wp2latex ymir.claremont.edu in directory [anonymous.tex.ibm_pc.
front_ends.wp2latex]
      WordPerfect users should also consult TUGboat issues 10#1 and 10#4.

wp2latex.zip wsmr-simtel20.army.mil pd1:
      A PC program (Turbo Pascal) by R. C. Houtepen at the Eindhoven University in the Netherlands. Pascal source is included. Users find it "helpful" and "decent" in spite of some limitations. It gets high marks for handling font changes. Limitations include no indices, table of contents, margins or graphics. It also won't handle the new features of WordPerfect 5.1, in particular the equation formatter.

wp2latex ymir.claremont.edu C version by Glenn Geers
134.173.4.23       [anonymous.tex.ibm_pc.fro nt_ends.wp2latex]

wp2x comp.sources.misc by Raymond Chen
Volume 22 convert WP4.2 to       TeX/L aTeX/ troff /etc.
      wp2x uses a configuration file to control how WP codes are translated.

A pair of commercial programs collectively called the Professional Edition of TexPort from K-Talk Communications in Columbus, OH is only sold directly by the vendor. It can convert at least from LaTeX directly to WordPerfect.

Since WordPerfect's equation capabilities are much more limited than those of TeX, this product imports text, but for each equation in the original LaTex (or TeX? document), it places the equation in the target WordPerfect document in your choice of one of the following three, essentially non-editable formats: a reference to an external 300 dot-per-inch TIFF image file, Encapsulated PostScript, or Encapsulated PostScript with a TIFF image for on screen preview. In addition, it creates separate files that contain the actual editable formatting that can be read by the included MathEdit program. The latter program can be used to edit the equations and then to generate new TIFF or EPS images for embedding in WordPerfect or other programs.

You can try importing the text from these documents directly into WordPerfect, then separately importing the equations into a program, such as MathType from Design Science, Inc., an application for MS Windows 3.x, that can directly read TeX. MathType and other, similar programs for the Macintosh usually can copy equations as images to the Microsoft Windows or Macintosh Clipboard, from which they can be pasted into many word processing applications.

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