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RE: Translating latex to docbook
- From: Jens Emmerich <Jens dot Emmerich at brokat-le dot com>
- To: "'docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org'" <docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org>
- Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 13:51:28 +0100
- Subject: RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Translating latex to docbook
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Hi,
Probably best is to use something like untex to remove any markup and add
mark up accordingly by hand. That's quicker for a one-shot solution than
configuring any (complex) transafromation tool.
Apart from sectioning and some kinds of lists, LaTeX/TeX's document markup
mixing visual and locigal markup does not allow "correct" automatic
translation into DocBook's more semantic markup.
See also Sebastian's advice:
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-apps/200007/msg00218.html
which partially applies to LaTeX as well, depending on the amount of visual
markup.
Jens
Btw. I had those exceptionally clean Word files to convert, but it was a lot
of clean-up anyway.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vladimir Blagojevic [mailto:vladimir@xisnext.2y.net]
> Sent: Mittwoch, 28. November 2001 01:31
> To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: DOCBOOK-APPS: Translating latex to docbook
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Does someone know less painful translation process from latex
> to docbook
> than tex4ht? It will take me at least two days to set up this tex4ht
> enviroment and all I need is one shot translation of a 3000
> words document
> from latex to docbook?
>
> Thanks,
> Vladimir
>
>