version 1.9.15 and stylesheets

Johan Henselmans <[email protected]> Tue, 9 Dec 2003 13:16:55 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.latex.latex2rtf.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

I have to translate some rather extensive documentation written in 
LaTex to Word, and I thought that Latex2RTF should take care of (most 
of) the translation. However, 1.9.14 made illegible text for TextEdit 
on the OS X. The (still beta?) version worked, somewhat. Tables still 
did not get read by TextEdit, most of the other stuff did. (The table 
problem seems to have something to do with braces).

However the main problem I have is that the style-attributes in LaTeX 
are not translated to style attributes in RTF, allthough there is a 
stylesheet included.

Are there any plans to add stylesheet attributes to the translator?

EG: chapter would be translated to heading 1, section to heading 2, 
itemize to bulletlist etc.

It would  also be nice to have the possible to included ones own 
stylesheets that would amend the standard stylesheet for that specific 
item, ie a bulletlist with the own specific character as a bullet.

I tried to make some additions to the preamble.c module to make it 
possible to include ones own stylesheet, fonttable and some other 
extra's, but I got stuck because adding my own fonttable seemed to 
break the conversion. Also I do not know where to start to add the 
stylesheet specifics. Does this require a complete rewrite or is it 
easier once one knows it's way around the source code?

If there are any plans in that direction I would like to contribute in 
any way I can.

-johan

Johan Henselmans
http://www.netsense.nl
Tel: +31-20-6267538
Fax: +31-20-6273852



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