General ⇒ Word to Latex--new software?

[NickB]

Hello,

Only old posts seem to refer to this and their leads are not very helpful.

Is anyone aware of any software that allows you to convert substantial word documents, including footnotes, tables, etc, into Latex?

Ideas most welcome.

Thanks

[thomasb]

Softwares... Copy-paste, and regular expression clean ?

[NickB]

Not sure what you mean with the end point, I am new to Latex.

But yes, something you could copy paste into and it would convert the document. There is one such, a website, not software, but it would not work even with a one page rtf, let alone a full document.

Thanks.

[thomasb]

It was supposed to mean : "and then, you clean the copied text with the replace function of your editor, that you can configure to recognize regular expressions, or patterns, in the text added by Word"...
The conversion should add caracters, but always the same ones, that you could replace with the recognition fonction of your editor. It calls 'regular expressions', try to Google it.

[Johannes_B]

There is indeed software like writer2latex or pandoc, but the results aren't great and need manual fixing.

[NickB]

I found an EXCELLENT site: https://www.docx2latex.com/

They are still working out some kinks, but this is almost perfect. And they respond to feedback, so if you send them problems, they will try to fix it!

[VicenteB]

That's high praise, I'll give them a shot. Thanks for the suggestion Nick.