Re: latex2rtf-1.9.16a_win.exe

On Mar 2, 2005, at 4:08 AM, Pavel Chebotarev wrote:

> Yesterday I downloaded latex2rtf-1.9.16a_win.exe .
> It is a nice converter!
> However, I encountered some problems, which are listed below.
> My system is Windows2000 and I have MSOffice2000.
> =C2=A0
> 1. The major problem. When I double-click on an RTF equation field in=20=

> order to improve it by transforming to an MS-Equation object, the font=20=

> information is ignored, so the Greek letters (of the=C2=A0symbol=20
> =C2=A0font)=C2=A0become Latin ones: \alpha becomes  a, and so on. =
=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0
>  Experimenting with it, I tried to put a symbol field into the=20
> equation field, because symbol fields enable one to indicate the font=20=

> explicitly by "\f symbol" key,=C2=A0but the Equation Editor =
simply=C2=A0ignores=20
> all symbol fields within equation fields.=C2=A0=C2=A0
> =C2=A0
> Similarly, the=C2=A0symbols such as =E2=88=9E,=E2=89=88,=E2=89=A0,=E2=88=
=99=C2=A0and so on are also transformed=20
> into completely different symbols.

This may be caused by problems with cyrillic encodings.  Does a=20
conversion of test/eqns.tex (from the distribution) fail to display=20
symbols as well?  If eqns.rtf works then you have MSOffice2000=20
weirdness and I cannot help.  Otherwise provide a short latex file=20
(less than 10 lines) so the problem can be tracked down.

> =C2=A0
> 2. It is not good that simple formulae like=C2=A0 x=3Dy+z=C2=A0  do =
not receive=20
> the RTF=C2=A0equation field form unlike more complex formulae. I think =
so,=20
> because the use of the Equation Editor might give them a better=20
> formatting/spacing such as x =3D y +  z .

Funny.  I went to some work to avoid the use of fields when they are=20
not needed.

> =C2=A0
> 3. I think, it is not good that the Greek letters are not italicized=20=

> in the formulae, because=C2=A0=C2=A0x =3D=C2=A0=CE=B2 + =CE=B4=C2=A0 =
would have been=C2=A0better than =20
> x=3D=CE=B2+=CE=B4.

Probably.  I just looked and Knuth says that it is conventional to use=20=

slanted lowercase greek letters and upright capital greek letters.

> =C2=A0
> 4. Pre-defined (in the preamble)=C2=A0LaTeX macros such as
>  \def\a{\alpha}
> worked fine in some formulae but did not work in some other ones.

This will not get fixed without a short example.

> =C2=A0
> 5. The Bitmap format worked good for "displayed equations" but did not=20=

> work at all for "inline equations".

Same here.

Thanks for your comments,
Scott



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