Yesterday I had to convert an article from LaTeX to Word. I tried three ways:
- Convert PDF to Word or RTF or text. For a while I got a weird PDF exception (..HIERARCHY...). After I fixed that somwhow, the resulting Word file wasmerely a collection of text-boxes with the content from the PDF. This was not something to use for editing.
- Use a shareware tool called GrindEQ. For converting a whole document, the result was a diseaster! E.g. it ate 75% of the references, but kept the other ones. Ok, it changed the citation keys from letters to numbers, but those were the minor issues.
- I tried LaTex2RTF. First I was a bit disappointed, because again, the result had many problems. However, it got so many things right! E.\,g. the footnote where still footnotes. Simple formulas got translated correctly - I do not use complex formulas in the document.
As there are still some issues, be warned what chokes the converter:
- abbrev package - first, second or other use of the macro all result in ... nothing.
- xspace: this one is a hungry package suddenyl, each call to \xspace deletes one word from the output instead of inserting a space.
- All references are printed as "garbage"+"real reference". By just deleting the garbage, the references look fine.
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