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How to convert a .rtf or .doc document to LaTeX?

Unfortunately, I cannot use rtf2latex2e because it says DropUNIX "no longer supports the classic environment." I barely know what I am doing otherwise except that I delete my .rtf file in the DropUNIX program.

What else can I use? I don't mind what type of file I convert to LaTeX (.doc will also be fine if it saves my formatting).

I am using Mac OS 10.5.8.

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Open Office . Download it .

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See the fmtconv question on the British TeX FAQ or, more specifically, the PC Converters page on WordTech processors in LaTeX - an overview that specifically addresses this issue and has many examples. This general list of text filters can also help.

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UnRTF claims that it can convert RTF to LaTeX, as well as to other formats (such as HTML). He claims that HTML is best supported, so maybe RTF-> HTML-> LaTeX (e.g. with html2latex) might work better. I actually did not try to do anything.

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Make your rtf / doc document into docx and convert it with docx2tex .

You need the System.IO.Packaging.NET class to make it work, which does not present a problem if you use Windows, and in principle it is supported by Mono if you do not. If someone manages to do this with Mono, I would like to hear your impressions: this did not work a year ago, but their implementation of this class has improved since then.

I talk more about the utility in response to tex.stackexchange . Suffice it to say that I consider this to be the cleanest, most convenient option for Latex today.

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