Text Formatting ⇒ Importing rich text

[AleCes]

Is there a way to import at least basic features (italic, bold etc...) into LaTex? I mean, is there a way to avoid reformatting it from scratch?

[frabjous]

What format is it in now, RTF?

Take a look at rtf2latex2e or wvWare or pandoc, for example. Here's a blog post on converting documents to LaTeX format which might provide some tips.

[localghost]

I guess the rtf2latex2e project is what you are searching for. There are OS specific versions available on the project page.


Thorsten

[AleCes]

Thank you guys, I'll let you know if those solutions may satisfy me. Going to tell you soon.

[AleCes]

OK, trying to ./configure rtf2latex I get this error message:

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loading cache ./config.cache
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
checking for working aclocal... missing
checking for working autoconf... missing
checking for working automake... missing
checking for working autoheader... missing
checking for working makeinfo... found
checking host system type... ./config.guess: 1015: Syntax error: end of file unexpected (expecting ")")
configure: error: can not guess host type; you must specify one

What's wrong with it???

[frabjous]

I remember having the same kind of problem when I tried to compile rtf2latex2e. I guess the config.guess program it comes with is faulty.

For me, the solution was to use the --host option to configure program to manually specify the host. For me, this was:

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./configure --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu

But obviously that only makes sense for a 64-bit version of Linux, and I don't know what you're using. (E.g., you might use i686-pc-linux-gnu instead if you've got a 32 bit version of Linux running, or maybe i486-pc-linux-gnu for an older processor, etc.

[AleCes]

OK I configured, made and installed it. It works!
Thank you everybody!