possibility of an RTF, LaTex XML conversion process (fwd)
signell@physnet.pa.msu.edu
Tue, 14 Apr 1998 14:41:46 -0400 (EDT)
David Megginson writes:
>
> Baden Hughes writes:
>
> > Both Don Park and David Megginson mentioned this in the last few
> > posts: conversion mechanisms from RTF and LaTex to XML. Anyone know
> > of any work on either of these ? I'd be very interested to hear
> > about it. If not, is there any other interest in these conversions
> > besides mine ?
>
> Simply doing a lexical transformation of RTF or vanilla LaTeX to XML
> is, if not trivial, at least straight-forward; the challenge is
> getting from the very loose structure and semantics of RTF or LaTeX to
> a real-world XML document type.
>
Amen! I am up-converting a technical book in LaTeX that has literally
thousands of format directives, each of which must be replaced by
a descriptor showing the author's intent. I used Perl to do some
automatically, but about half needed decisions by a content expert.
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