word2x(1) LOCAL COMMANDS word2x(1)NAMEword2x - convert word 6 documents to another format
SYNOPSISword2x [-Vhvq] [-w width] [-f format] [-d date-style] files...
DESCRIPTIONword2x is a program that attempts to produce a component, if not per‐
fect rendition of a word 6 document. It guesses rather a lot from con‐
text and can make mistakes. Pictures are not supported and will not
appear. There is very limited maths support in LaTeX mode, mainly due
to lack of samples of mathematics. (I probably should have done this
using TeX catcode and macro magic, instead of writing special code).
Input files must be seekable and therefore stdin is not allowed. The
files argument is of the form input file, output file, input file, out‐
put file etc. - may be used for stdout in the output file. If the out‐
put file is not sepcified a named is generated by adding on an appropi‐
ate suffix in place of .DOC (or .doc). Both .DOC and .doc are added
automatically if the file name specified can not be found.
As a special exception to the above any file ending on .doc or .DOC is
assumed to be an input file. This allows one to type word2x-f latex
*.DOC, for example.
OPTIONS-V, --version
print version on stderr and exit.
-h, --help
show synopsis, output and date formats supported.
-v, --verbose
be (moderately) verbose
-q, --quiet
supress non-error messages (this is the default).
-w, --width
set the maximum width of a line in the output
-d, --dates
set the date format. Currently the formats supported are uk,
british, us. uk dates are 22nd April, 1997, for example and US
style dates April 22nd, 1997. british is a synonym for uk. The
default is uk.
-f, --format
Set the output format. Currently text and latex are supported.
The LaTeX output requires the AMS LaTeX package and LaTeX 2e.
It should be reasonably easy to add another format, however some
formats do a large amount of context guesswork, for example the
LaTeX format (esp. in the paragraph handling code). text is
the default.
BUGS
One argument does not produce output on stdout
The reader sometimes generates error messages when it is confused.
The equation support is limited to only fractions at present.
The program appears to understand a lot more than it really does.
Pictures are silently disguared.
Fast save files are not supported.
The conversion is not perfect and needs manual cleaning up.
Non-word files silently produce empty output in most cases.
Equations are not supported in text output.
If the cues the program recognised LaTeX mode does little more than
produce LaTeX format tables and plain text output.
AUTHORword2x is (C) Duncan Simpson 1997 and may be distributed under the GPL
version 2, or any later version at your option. I would appreciate
patches and information emailed to dps@io.stargate.co.uk
Duncan Simpson 1st April 1997 word2x(1)
