Re: LaTeX2rtf question double spacing question

On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 10:18:36AM +0200, Wilfried Hennings wrote:

> At 31.08.2007 21:19, Mick McQuaid <[email protected]> wrote:
> >I'm trying to send a LaTeX file to a journal that requires
> >submissions in .doc or .rtf format and also requires double
> >spacing.  I obtained the most recent build of LaTeX2rtf
> >yesterday via svn but it ignores my attempts at double
> >spacing.
> >
> With the current version of latex2rtf this is not possible, however 
> it may be easy to implement (hello all, correct me if I'm wrong).
> 

I just received my copy of the RTF pocket guide, so that I might
actually understand both the input _and_ the output of latex2rtf.
Double spacing does indeed seem pretty straightforward, and I've added
a simple command that will recognize the \doublespacing command (in
the preamble at least) and modify the line spacing options to \pard
accordingly. I've tested it on a basic text file, and it seems to work
properly - without \doublespacing the document looks normal, and with
\doublespacing the only thing that changes is, thankfully, the line
spacing.

I'm not sure what this will do to things other than straight text, as
I haven't searched out all the possible routes that lead to the
CmdStartParagraph(int) function, so there may yet be surprises. Let me
know if you find anything that breaks with the changes (likely
suspects are tables, equations, captions etc.), or if there are more
sophisticated options you'd like added.

Cheers,

Tyler

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