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Peter T. Daniels wrote:
>>> It worked (Acrobat 7.0 rather than reader); I found something called
>>> "selection tool" and could select and copy text. Unfortunately, it
>>> pastes into Word with all its formatting intact, including a new
>>> paragraph for every line, and messes up the Word paragraphing that
>>> assigns the numbers to the examples. So it's a total of 6 steps for
>>> each of 296 numbered examples (plus however many appear in footnotes).
>>> Select, Copy, Paste, fix paragraphs, fix size, fix font.
>>
>> This is definitely not what you want: What you are pasting into Word is
>> an image only.
>
> Funny, I can't edit an image, but these excerpts edit perfectly. (But
> time-consumingly.)
No, of course it's not an image (I don't know what Ruud was thinking
about). But I'm astonished that, of so many gurus and tex knowitalls, no
one gave the obvious answer - of course latex can be output to a lot of
formats. Just tell the author to output the original latex to a bloody
RTF file instead of PDF! latex2rtf, anyone? I think there is even a
latex2doc. There's also stuff to convert in the opposite direction, but
that, naturally, is error-prone.
--
am
laurus : rhodophyta : brezoneg : smalltalk : stargate
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