Re: [Latex2rtf-users] Some questions on LaTeX2RTF

Moving back to mailing list...

On Nov 9, 2004, at 7:23 AM, Dijk, Arjan van wrote:

>> I have fixed these problems in the CVS code repository at sourceforge.
>> These are the first fixes for the new version 1.9.17
>
> Dear Scott,
>
> Great! I appreciate your efforts!
>
> This morning I had a version of my document that went allright except 
> for citations and one table. In an old attempt to convert my article I 
> had the citations right and the table was only limited in length.

Did you redefine BUFFSIZE in parser.c ?

> I tried to improve both issues and now every time when I open the 
> rtf-file my pc crashes... Even when I eliminate the table then my 
> machine gives up. There is even a curious proces running that consumes 
> 99 percent cpu-time and I cannot kill it. Strange. Bill Gates has 
> produced terrible software.

I too have discovered that Word is remarkably intolerant of mistakes in 
table construction.

> Last e-mail you suggested to modify a certain file to include e.g. 
> \dagger (which is really not recognized) and similar stuff. Since I am 
> a hardcore latex-user I would not have the faintest idea where to 
> look. Nevertheless, once my file runs well, I'll give it a shot.

\dag and \ddag are already defined in cfg/direct.cfg

\dag,\'86.
\ddag,\'87.

just add the lines

\dagger,\'86.
\ddagger,\'87.

>
> Can you tell me if there is a debug-level that prints the linenumber 
> of the source-file until which conversion was without problems while 
> compilation takes place?

The linenumbers, unfortunately, are not very reliable --- ever.  
However by using -d4 you can probably
see the text as it is processed to see where things fail.

>
> Of course 1 lunatic can ask more than 1000 wise peaople can answer, 
> but let me be the loony one: Would it be feasable to incorporate 
> support for \begin{align} \end{align}? It is just like 
> \begin{eqnarray} \end{eqnarray}, but now with only 1 "&"-symbol for 
> alignment and prettier output (tmho).

yes it is feasible.

Scott



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