[colug-432] TeX

[Steve VanSlyck]

also it's not possible to send a PDF to my Kindle I need to have it in in the Kindle library in order to do that I need to send it to the Kindle as it as a Word document

Rick Hornsby <richardjhornsby at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>> On Feb 22, 2014, at 9:48, Steve VanSlyck <s.vanslyck at spamcop.net>
>wrote:
>> 
>> Hey guys.
>> 
>> I have a TeX file. Goal is to convert it to Word (DOC or possibly
>DOCX) 
>> with all fonts embedded so I can send it to my Kindle.
>> 
>> Is there anyone here who can do that for me? Much of the file is
>simple 
>> Times Roman (or some equivalent typeface) but there are some 
>> mathematical symbols and such.
>> 
>> And if so, can you tell me what you'll need (if anything) apart from
>the 
>> TeX text file itself?
>
>Disclaimer: I've worked very little with LaTeX documents.
>
>It seems like a more direct conversion would be to PDF, which the
>Kindle supports easily.
>
>I'm not in front of a Linux box right now, but I can imagine with a
>fair degree of certainty there is a tex2pdf or tex2ps converter in the
>repo of any major distro.  (ps2pdf would be the second step if going to
>postscript first).  This might help:
>
>http://tex2pdf.berlios.de
>
>I'm sure there is a way to convert to Word but ... ugh.  Proprietary,
>closed format, but maybe worst is the strong possibility of massive
>document formatting loss, etc.  I say this from experience with MSWord
>conversion nonsense over the years, and having dealt with stupidness
>taking the same PowerPoint file between Windows and OSX just this week,
>and finding inexplicable formatting differences.
>
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