LaTeX and big writing projects

[Justin Harford]

Right for example what format elements does latextortf recognize and what elements does it just ignore? Does it understand fancyhdr, setspace, geometry, etc?

Justin 
On 03-03-2012, at 12:06, Michael Whapples wrote:

> I was aware that there are tools for converting to other formats, I guess I am just cautious of how well they work.
> 
> As an aside, I know that there are some differences between RTF and word document format, however I don't know much of the differences, may be you could list the key ones.
> 
> Michael Whapples
> 
> -----Original Message----- From: Chris Brannon
> Sent: Friday, March 02, 2012 11:46 AM
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> Subject: Re: LaTeX and big writing projects
> 
> "Michael Whapples" <mwhapples at aim.com> writes:
> 
>> I have to agree with Liz though, you may come across times where the
>> expected format means using LaTeX is not possible (eg. I am studying
>> with the Open University and I must submit my project report as a word
>> document or RTF).
> 
> Here's what you do.  Run latex2rtf to produce a .rtf file from your
> LaTeX source.  If they want an actual .doc file, then just rename
> document.rtf to document.doc, and send that to them.  Most people don't
> know the difference, and neither does Microsoft Word.  It will open the
> .rtf file without complaint, even though it has the wrong extension.
> This is what I do when people ask for Word documents from me, and it
> works like a charm.
> 
> -- Chris
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