Word2TeX - TeX2Word

Word2TeX: What Is That?

Word2TeX is a converter designed in order to use with Microsoft Word and enables Microsoft Word to save documents in LaTeX format. This gives the opportunity to convert existing Microsoft Word documents to LaTeX and to create new LaTeX documents right in your mainstream word processor rather than requiring a completely separate editing environment. Using Word2TeX in conjunction with Microsoft Word, you can easily create articles, technical reports, research papers, dissertations and even entire books for such hard and not always comfortable markup-based system as LaTeX. It doesn't, in fact, require that one even learn LaTeX in order to publish LaTeX papers, and so can save students and other newcomers to scientific publishing the long climb up the LaTeX learning curve and also can help LaTeX experts to save their time. Instead of inputting LaTeX commands, you can simply use Equation Editor (or MathType) in Microsoft Word to create equations and you easily click and point to insert a picture or to make a table Then you can convert your document into LaTeX format with the help of Word2TeX. Thus, Word2TeX leverages your investment in Microsoft Word.

What For?

Why you may need your documents to be in LaTeX format? LaTeX is a de-facto standard in scientific publishing and most scientific publishers accept papers only in LaTeX format. LaTeX documents can be published not only on the paper, but on the Web using, for instance, pdfTeX which compiles TeX/LaTeX documents to PDF (Portable Document Format by Adobe). Read more about Web publishing with PDF in Thomas Merz book "Web Publishing with Acrobat/PDF" (Springer-Verlag, 1997, ISBN 3-540-63762-1), also it is highly recommended to visit BinaryThing.com which runs The ePublishing Network -- network of interrelated sites dedicated to electronic publishing (ePublishing). To see samples of PDF documents created with Word2TeX please see Word2TeX Samples.

TeX2Word: What Is That?

TeX2Word is a converter designed in order to use with Microsoft Word and enables Microsoft Word to open documents in TeX format (this includes any TeX-based formats like LaTeX, etc.). This gives the opportunity to import existing TeX documents to Microsoft Word. TeX2Word is based on Chikrii Softlab pseudoTeX technology and this means that virtually any existing TeX/LaTeX package can be supported by TeX2Word. TeX2Word has open-architecture and provides everyone with opportunity to customize it for personal or business needs.

What For?

Why you may need your documents to be in Microsoft Word format? TeX/LaTeX is a de-facto standard in scientific publishing, but many publishers accept papers only in Microsoft Word format. Other reason is wide spectrum of software compatible with Microsoft Word, for example, Microsoft Word documents can be published on the Web using, for instance, Mathpage technology shipped with Design Science MathType version 5.