From: Reuben D Budiardja (reubendb@goshen.edu)
Date: Tue Apr 23 2002 - 23:40:13 EDT
On Tuesday 23 April 2002 05:36 pm, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
> There are several ways around this:
>
> 1) Your #1 is wrong. You can keep using AbiWord, except script it on the
> command line:
>
> abiword --to html file.doc
> This results in file.html being produced. Not too shabby, and the HTML
> output is visually stunning.
But abiword cannot convert the equations and formulas written in MS Word as
an object. I tried this already, and all the equations just becomes blank.
> abiword --to latex file.doc
> This results in file.latex being produced. NB: the output to TeX probabl
> isn't visually close enough for your needs, nor will it honor things
> like graphics.
Didn't try this, but I am suspecting the same problem as above. As the
original poster said, the documents includes equations etc.
To Original Poster (Ro Wiijkejak) :
If you save the document as HTML from MS Word, all the equations will become
a picture/graphics. Your scripts will need to handle that. However, html
files produces by MS Word is a mess, and contains a lot of proprietary tags I
think. But if you can just extract the text and graphics, that'll be great.
Unless you're willing to re-write all of your formula using a latex front end
of somekind, I don't see how AbiWord can help you converting this.
Just my 0.02 cents.
Reuben D. Budiardja
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