Re: Exporting to LaTeX - help!

On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, John R. Culleton wrote:

> Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 22:14:01 -0500
> From: John R. Culleton <john@wexfordpress.com>
> To: abiword-user@abisource.com
> Cc: "sum1_lists@yahoo.com" <sum1_lists@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: Exporting to LaTeX - help!
>
>
> On Wednesday 18 January 2006 06:51 pm, sum1_lists@yahoo.com wrote:
> > Paulo Ney de Souza wrote:

> > > I installed a new version of ABIWord and all the plugins that are
> > > available at the site, but I still can't figure out how to save or export
> > > a Word file to LaTeX. The options does not seem to show up in the
> > > Save-dialog and I don't see an Export menu entry.
> > >
> > > Can anyone help ?

As sum1 mentioned extra import export plugins need to be installed to get
LaTeX export.

> Your best bet at the moment::
> Save as rtf, then use the free program rtf2latex2e to do the
> conversion.

Your suggestion might not be the best bet. Does that work on windows?
The message was sent using Microsoft Office Outlook which means the user
is very likely to be using Windows.

> The latex plugin for Abiword is deficient.

Hey! It may not be enough for your requirements but please.

Your suggestions may be a useful alternative and it would be helpful if
you would add a note about it to the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) on
our website (wiki).

> I have asked for help in updating the module but thus far none has been
> forthcoming.

Please be patient. All the developers are unpaid volunteers working on
abiword in their spare time.
http://www.abisource.com/support/expectations.phtml

The developers do try and respond to most messages. I try and provide
some kind of a response to many questions but in this case I didn't have a
helpful answer to your question so I did not reply at all.

> I also filed a bug report.

I'm it must be there somewhere but I dont see a report, I looked up all
the open reports against the LaTeX exporter:
http://bugzilla.abisource.com/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&component=Export+-+LaTeX&long_desc_type=allwordssubstr&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&status_whiteboard=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&emailtype1=substring&email1=&emailtype2=substring&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&votes=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0=

It can sometimes be a long time before anyone responds to a bug report but
they are not forgotten about and sum1 does an excellent job of keeping the
buglist in order.

This report about quotes not being exported as expected seems similar to
some of what you were asking about
http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=9800

Sincerely

Alan Horkan
http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/

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Received on Thu Jan 19 12:13:24 2006