[SLUG] Re: WP 8 to RTF? to Latex?

[Angus Lees <gusl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

\begin{Terry Collins}
> So, we are now considering moving it all to Latex?
> Has any one done a similar conversion?

done word to docbook. that was painful enough.

> I am considering RTF as an intermediate stage to avoid losing all
> formating. Will this work? Any gotcha?

if you can save it as text with blank lines between paragraphs, then
you're most of the way there.

actual formatting (in the wysiwyg sense) is unlikely to survive any
conversion process. the best you can probably hope for will be
bold/italic, paragraph breaks and section headers to be preserved.

> The book is 100 pages A5 size, to be laser printed duplex mode as a
> booklet.

have a look on CTAN. there's quite a few "booklet" packages that may
or may not help.

> It contains 
> 	~12 different fonts,

installing fonts as a bit finicky. have a look at fontinst(1) and some
LaTeX docs on "NFSS"

> 	6 self generated indexes/list/toc,

hopefully the minitoc package will do what you want. otherwise you're
going to have to get your hands dirty.

> 	6 + full page photographics (best graphics format?)

.eps if you want to produce postscript output.

if you want pdf output then .pdf for vector graphics; .png or .jpeg for
raster.

> 	25+ graphics/drawings.


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 - Gus