LaTeX2rtf is a translator program which is intended to translate a LaTeX document (precisely: the text and a limited subset of LaTeX tags) into the RTF format which can be imported by several textprocessors (including Microsoft Word for Windows and Word for Macintosh).
It compiles on a wide variety of unix systems including Mac OS X, on Macintosh (using the DropUnix environment), MS-DOS (using the DJGPP compiler) and MS-Windows (using the Cygwin compiler or the MinGW compiler).
You can download LaTeX2rtf of course from this site, but also from any CTAN server (upload of new versions to CTAN with some delay).
Also see the more detailed documentation
- for the last released package (1.9.19) in
html format or
pdf format
A version for MS Windows including a GUI shell (l2rshell.exe) and a windows installer is available as latex2rtf-win package (thanks to Mikhail Polianski). This will only run under Windows NT, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, and probably Windows 7.
Up to version 1.9.19, the win package does not run on 64bit systems,
therefore the win64 package was added.
From version 1.9.20 on, the win package also runs on 64bit systems.
The latex2rtf-win-NO-GUI package (without GUI shell and installer) will run under Windows 9x, ME, NT, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, and probably Windows 7.
As of 2006-01-30, there is a GUI shell for the Macintosh, see http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/fischerk/LaTeX2rtf/index.html
Visit the project page on this site at http://sourceforge.net/projects/latex2rtf/
A collection of information about various RTF formats can be found here
(all info on RTF formats Copyright © by Microsoft)
Some help for developers: Here are some font tables.
We are still searching for volunteers to coordinate the further
development and/or do some programming.
Please contact Wilfried Hennings (texconvfaq "at" gmx "dot" de)
CTAN is "The Comprehensive TeX Archive Network". The primary CTAN hosts -- which also allow uploading -- are the British, the USA and the German sites. There are many more full or partial CTAN mirrors. A list of CTAN (primary and mirror) hosts is available e.g. at ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/README.mirrors.
The following are links to the primary CTAN hosts:
Der deutsche CTAN Server (The German CTAN server)
and the directories on them where you find the converters:
British CTAN server, free converters
USA CTAN Server, free converters
Deutscher CTAN Server, freie Konverter
page created on April 27, 2001 by Wilfried Hennings (texconvfaq
"at" gmx "dot" de)
-- last update (by Wilfried): Nov 28, 2007
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