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Date:	Mon, 27 Sep 2004 09:53:39 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To:	Alex Vinokur <alexvn AT connect DOT to>
cc:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: Convert Word/html/pdf/ps to TeX
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On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Alex Vinokur wrote:

> Does Cygwin hold any tools to convert Word/html/pdf/ps to TeX?

In general it's not possible to recover the document structure from
html/pdf/rtf/ps.  You may be able to write a perl script that converts
HTML/RTF formatting tags to LaTeX formatting statements, but it'll be just
as hacked up as the PostScript that Word produces... :-D
	Igor
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