[ale] LaTeX question?

[James Sumners]

A quick search returns this -- http://www.tug.org/utilities/texconv/textopc.html

I would be loathe to do it, though. LaTeX and Word serve two entirely
different purposes. Word is for those who don't know any better, and
LaTeX is for when it needs to be done right. It seems to me that if
you are working on a subject where LaTeX is the most appropriate tool,
then your instructor would accept a PDF, or even the TeX file. But if
the instructor is feeding the work through some sort of plagiarism
checker, then it's likely that the subject is english or literature.
For those, just stick with OpenOffice and hope that the Word exporter
gets it right.

On Dec 9, 2007 2:20 PM, Michael B. Trausch <mike at trausch.us> wrote:
> I have been wondering something, and I am hoping maybe someone here
> might have run across the answer.  One of the things that my school
> requires is that I turn in assignments online in one of the Microsoft
> Office formats.  90% of the time, I wind up using OpenOffice Writer to
> do my homework, which is okay for small assignments, but with as much as
> I have been using LaTeX (and more recently, XeLaTeX), I am kind of left
> wondering if it is possible to turn (Xe)LaTeX documents into Microsoft
> Word documents.
>
> Basically, I would like to be able to typeset my papers and generate a
> PDF and (for the school's benefit) Microsoft Word documents.  They then
> turn around and feed the document to a plagiarism checker and other
> tools that only work on MS Word documents.  Ideally, they should accept
> PDFs, but that won't likely ever happen.
>
> Any ideas?
>
>         --- Mike
>
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