From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 31 03:11:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA24923 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 03:11:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from csd.cs.technion.ac.il (csd.cs.technion.ac.il [132.68.32.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id DAA24912 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 03:10:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (nadav@localhost) by csd.cs.technion.ac.il (8.6.11/8.6.10) with SMTP id NAA08676; Thu, 31 Jul 1997 13:08:33 +0300 X-Authentication-Warning: csd.cs.technion.ac.il: nadav owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 13:08:32 +0300 (IDT) From: Nadav Eiron X-Sender: nadav@csd To: Ada T Lim cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MS Word documents (was: Advice sought on PnP configuration) In-Reply-To: <199707310925.TAA08099@polya.blah.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 31 Jul 1997, Ada T Lim wrote: > > Has anybody investigated what it would take to convert MS Word to a > > portable format? So much stuff is sent in it nowadays, even by people > > who should know better. Is it that difficult? If somebody can point > > me to some format documentation, I'm prepared to have a hack at it. > > If you _really_ need to read word files, StarOffice (in the ports collection) > will do in a pinch. > > I think there's something out there that converts word to rtf, and I know > there's rtf->html There's also an rtf->LaTeX converter in the ports. Haven't put it to heavy use, but it may be worth a try too. > > Ada > Nadav