Re: latex2rtf and openoffice

At 10.12.2002 18:22, Uwe Brauer wrote:
>Wilfried Hennings writes:
>>At 25.11.2002 22:09, Uwe Brauer wrote:
>>>Are there plans  to support  math formula  in openoffice. That  is to 
>>>convert a  latex file into  a formal  (mml/xml) which  can be read and 
>>>edited by openoffice.
>>
>>I managed to install Eitan Gurari's TeX4ht system
>>(see homepage at http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/~gurari/TeX4ht/mn.html)
>>and found that this is able to convert a LaTeX document to html including 
>>a css stylesheet which makes it useable for loading into MS Word (I think 
>>only Word2000 and up).
>
>I did not know that word has this feature.
>
>I understand correctly?
>
>A. Latex can be converted to html + CSS (I think tth can not do this)

Yes. Word (maybe only Word2000 and up) can load this, respecting the 
formatting.

>B. Latex can be converted to mml.

Yes. Of course only equations can be written in MML, everything else is 
html+css.
But Word2000 and lower can not interpret MML, i.e. if you load the html+mml 
into Word, simply the mml source is displayed.
However TeX4ht can alternatively convert the LaTeX equations to bitmaps 
which are correctly displayed in Word.

BUT you asked for XML to be loaded to OpenOffice. OpenOffice may (or may 
not) be able to interpret MML and convert it to whatever it likes. I have 
no experience with the current version of OpenOffice.

>But  can  the  equations  then   be   modified in word???
>Are  they converted internally to eq fields?

No, at least not with Word2000 and lower.

Maybe Word XP can do that, I don't know. Maybe OpenOffice can do that; as 
THIS was your question, you should know better (do you?)


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