Re: LaTeX conversion.

On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, John R. Culleton wrote:

> Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 18:09:49 -0500
> From: John R. Culleton <john@wexfordpress.com>
> To: abiword-user@abisource.com
> Subject: LaTeX conversion.
>
>
> My only use for Abiword is as a MSWord to LaTeX convertor.

:(

You could at least pretend to be enthusiastic :P

Glad you like the LaTeX convert though.

Anyway...

> However I find that certain characters just get deleted during
> this conversion, like hyphens and ellipses.

Not all hypens and ellipses are created equal.

Special characters are being used. To preserve them special tables of
conversions would need to be added ot abiword. Smart quotes are a better
known example of such troublesome characters.

> I find that if I save
> the file as rtf from e.g., Open Office, and then run rtf2latex2e
> I get a much better conversion.

they have already done the conversion

if you can file bug reports with detailed examples and sample files there
is a better chance of a developer taking a look at it.

> Is anyone working on the LaTeX plugin currently?

Not as far as I know. Patches welcome. :)

Sincerely

Alan Horkan
http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/
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Received on Tue Jan 10 00:42:53 2006