From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/42200 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Siep Kroonenberg Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Word-to-LaTex on linux? Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 15:12:30 +0200 Message-ID: <20080707131230.GG5805@molly> References: <20080707093118.GA4456@mnw.art.pl> <20080707120343.GB4456@mnw.art.pl> Reply-To: Siep Kroonenberg , mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1215441589 5959 80.91.229.12 (7 Jul 2008 14:39:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 14:39:49 +0000 (UTC) To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Jul 07 16:40:31 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KFrst-0004CC-BP for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:40:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 618C71FBB5; Mon, 7 Jul 2008 16:39:14 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 22455-02-4; Mon, 7 Jul 2008 16:38:32 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 471711FEF4; Mon, 7 Jul 2008 15:13:01 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5B051FEF4 for ; Mon, 7 Jul 2008 15:12:56 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 01504-01-25 for ; Mon, 7 Jul 2008 15:12:36 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp20.nijmegen.internl.net (smtp20.nijmegen.internl.net [217.149.192.18]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1D421FBC5 for ; Mon, 7 Jul 2008 15:12:31 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from bitmuis (43-134.surfsnel.dsl.internl.net [145.99.134.43]) by smtp20.nijmegen.internl.net (8.13.8/2.04) with SMTP id m67DCTRN026138; Mon, 7 Jul 2008 15:12:30 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by bitmuis (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:12:30 +0200 Mail-Followup-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080707120343.GB4456@mnw.art.pl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:42200 Archived-At: On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 02:03:43PM +0200, Piotr Kopszak wrote: > On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 11:31:19AM +0200, Piotr Kopszak wrote: > > Dear list, > > > > Has anyone had any success running Word-to-Latex converter, mentioned on contextgarden, on linux? In theory it should be possible using wine and winetricks. > > > > Piotr > > Replying to myself. Before trying on my linux box I asked my administrator to install it on a windows box and it fails even to load its own configuration file when I try to use as ordinary user. Is it really worth the effort at all? > > Piotr Did you visit the homepage http://kebrt.webz.cz/programs/word-to-latex/ to check the prerequisites? I tried it out for somebody else, and with word, mathtype and net1.1 installed it did quite a nice job. It is basically a Word macro, even though you can call it from outside Word (which is not recommended). -- Siep Kroonenberg ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________