Status of USR Doc conversion (was Re: New vgetty release)

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>>>>> "Dirk" == Dirk Haenelt <dhaen@eeisz1.et.tu-dresden.de> writes:

    Dirk> Hello, Robert J. Brown wrote:
    >>  No, the problem he is facing is broken RTF -- Microsoft
    >> *CHANGES* the definition of RTF with every new release of
    >> msword.  This makes it impossible for non-M$ programmers to
    >> keep utilities up to date.  The best advice would be to load
    >> the msword doc intoan *OLDER* version of word and then save
    >> that as the RTF.  That would probably generate the definition
    >> of RTF that the rtf2html filter is expecting.

    Dirk> Oh!  I think, you can't load new DOC-files into older
    Dirk> M$-murks application.  The incompatibilities between
    Dirk> different versions of wooord is the biggest feature in this
    Dirk> applications. :-)))))))

The obvious remaining solution is to write the word file out as plain
ascii text, and then reformat it using LaTeX (portable anywhere), and
then run latex2html to webify it.  The LaTeX file will also generate
excellent hardcopy.  This is actually the best way to do it; I just
thought ha the RTF approach might be easier -- stupid me!

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