[colug-432] TeX

[Vince Herried]

Kile a kde application creates pdf or ps files just fine.
I'm using it at the moment for a course I'm taking.





On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 12:56 PM, Steve VanSlyck <s.vanslyck at spamcop.net>wrote:

> 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 certai!
>>  nty
>> 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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