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Subject:Word Processor to HTML Utilities - Good Info From:Vince Putman <PUTMV -at- MAIL -dot- SYNTRON -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 24 Mar 1995 09:40:24 CST
FYI TechWriters,
Found the following good info for those of us who need WWW home pages and links
from our WordProcessors and other editors or file formats.
> Word Perfect
> A set of WordPerfect macros to convert from WordPerfect 5.1 for
> DOS. Contact: dja -at- soton -dot- ac -dot- uk (David Adams)
> WPTOHTML WordPerfect macros to convert from WordPerfect 5.1 for
> DOS and WordPerfect 6.0 for DOS to HTML. Contact: hmonroe -at- us -dot- net
> (Hunter Monroe)
> wp2x converts WP 5.1 to many things, including HTML 1.0. Runs
> only under Unix. Contact: Micharl Richardson
> mcr -at- ccs -dot- carleton -dot- ca
> wpmacro (word perfect 5.1 macro, now largely superseded by
> WPTOHTML) Contact: steeve -at- stoner -dot- eps -dot- mcgill -dot- ca (Steeve McCauley)
> See also the information on add-ons for HoTMetal.
> Cyberleaf also handles Word Perfect format.
> FrameMaker / MIF
> WebMaker converts FrameMaker documents and books to a network of
> HTML files. Contact: webmaker -at- cern -dot- ch (Bertrand Rousseau et al.)
> Frame2html. See release note for version 0.8.9 Contact:
> jons -at- nta -dot- no (Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner)
> WebWorks Document Translator from Quadralay Corporation.
> MifMucker is an application for manipulating Frame documents and
> books. It contains a filter to convert FrameMaker documents into
> HTML. Contact: harward -at- convex -dot- com (Ken Harward)
> www_and_frame (sources and note on current status) Contact:
> connolly -at- w3 -dot- org (Dan Connolly)
> miftran (file miftran.tgz). (An MIF to HTML converter written in
> C. See README). Contact: jimmc -at- eskimo -dot- com (Jim McBeath)
> Cyberleaf also handles Framemaker format.
> mif.pl is a Perl library to parse Frame Maker Interchange Format
> (MIF), designed to be used by filters. Contact: ehood -at- convex -dot- com
> (Earl Hood)
> edc2html is a Perl program that generates an HTML document to
> allow navigation through the structure of a FrameBuilder Element
> Catalog. Contact: ehood -at- convex -dot- com (Earl Hood)
> troff etc
> ms2html (ms to html - good) Contact: oscar -at- iam -dot- unibe -dot- ch (Oscar
> Nierstrasz)
> me2html for the troff me macros is based on this. Contact:
> troyer -at- socrates -dot- ucsf -dot- edu (John M. Troyer)
> troff2html. A perl script for the me macros. Contact:
> troyer -at- cgl -dot- ucsf -dot- edu (John M. Troyer)
> Another troff2html uses nroff to do most of its work and is
> therefore compatible with many troff pre-processors such as tbl
> and refer. Contact: jim -at- minster -dot- york -dot- ac -dot- uk (Jim Briggs).
> mm2html pre-alpha release of an nroff mm to HTML perl script
> based heavily on ms2html and fm2html. Contact:
> J -dot- Crowcroft -at- cs -dot- ucl -dot- ac -dot- uk
> LaTeX, BibTeX
> latex2html LaTeX to HTML converter program - not only does it
> successfully show the more complex LaTeX formatting, for example
> for mathematics, but it also has a set of iconic images, which
> are included for navigation, and to mark footnotes and
> references. (new version 95.1). Here is a short tutorial from the
> CERN computer newsletter. Contact: nikos -at- cbl -dot- leeds -dot- ac -dot- uk (Nikos
> Drakos)
> l2h (not as ambitious) Contact: jkimball -at- src -dot- honeywell -dot- com
> vulcanize (currently not available) is a simple perl script that
> takes care of the bulk of most nonmathematical LaTeX documents.
> Contact: mjd -at- saul -dot- cis -dot- upenn -dot- edu (Mark-Jason Dominus)
> Hyperlatex allows the use of a subset of LaTeX to produce
> documents in HTML. Contact: otfried -at- cs -dot- ruu -dot- nl (Otfried
> Schwarzkopf)
> tex2rtf will convert LaTeX to HTML as well as RTF, Windows Help
> RTF and wxHelp. (The source is available here). Contact:
> J -dot- Smart -at- ed -dot- ac -dot- uk
> The LaTeX parser l2x can be used to produce HTML. Contact:
> hgs -at- fokus -dot- gmd -dot- de (Henning Schulzrinne)
> axtex is a filter to extract LaTeX "objects" embedded in HTML
> produce a .tex and ultimately an image file for each one, and
> produce an HTML file with the corresponding inlines. Contact:
> thrift -at- ra -dot- csc -dot- ti -dot- com (Philip Thrift)
> bib2html is a shell script plus two BibTeX-style files. Contact:
> dfk -at- cs -dot- dartmouth -dot- edu (David Kotz)
> The network bibliography at AT&T uses scripts to index BibTeX
> files and to convert them to html on the fly on retrieval. More
> details and software. Contact: hgs -at- research -dot- att -dot- com (Henning
> Schulzrinne)
> The bibliography on autonomous agents in HCI and CSCW at
> Birmingham UK also has tools for BibTeX searching and adding html
> markup to BibTeX files. Contact: amw -at- cs -dot- bham -dot- ac -dot- uk (Andy Wood)
> There is also information on Manipulating BibTeX Bibliographies
> used for the Computer Science Bibliographies server at Karlsruhe.
> Contact: achilles -at- ira -dot- uka -dot- de (Alf-Christian Achilles)
> Texinfo
> texi2html (new version Jan 1994) Contact: cons -at- dxcern -dot- cern -dot- ch (Lionel
> Cons)
> DECwrite, VAX Document
> decw2html (script to process SGML output) Contact:
> p -dot- lister -at- cranfield -dot- ac -dot- uk
> Here is an awk script to convert SDML to HTML. Contact:
> lionel -at- quark -dot- enet -dot- dec -dot- com (Steve Lionel)
> Interleaf
> Cyberleaf from Interleaf converts not only Interleaf, but
> FrameMaker, Microsoft Word RTF, WordPerfect and ASCII formats. It
> also converts graphics to GIF or PostScript.
> il2html (scripts to help conversion) Contact:
> wilhelms -at- dlrtcs -dot- da -dot- op -dot- dlr -dot- de (Hartmut Wilhelms)
> and another recipe with comments on WorldView files etc. Contact:
> hmiller -at- tasc -dot- com (Hal Miller)
> and another using Framemaker. Contact: skip -at- automatrix -dot- com (Skip
> Montanaro)
> QuarkXPress
> qt2www Perl script to convert Quark-tagged plain text files to
> HTML. This is a general-purpose conversion utility; it reads in a
> map file that lists the Quark Tags used in the source file and
> how they should be translated into HTML. Versions for Unix, DOS
> and Macintosh. Contact: jerhy -at- ltt1 -dot- lcs -dot- mit -dot- edu (Jeremy Hylton)
> Several export filter kits are also available.
> Gateway is an XTension which translates QuarkXPress documents to
> HTML. Real soon now from Acrobyte.
> PageMaker
> Dave is an AppleScript script that works with PageMaker 5.0 to extract
> articles and convert them to HTML. Contact: boulter -at- bucknell -dot- edu (Jeff
> Boulter)
> Scribe
> There is a technical report Producing HTML Documents with Scribe for
> users of the Scribe document production system. Contact:
> trewitt -at- pa -dot- dec -dot- com (Glenn Trewitt)
> PowerPoint
> Here are some notes on converting PowerPoint to HTML
> Linuxdoc-SGML
> Linuxdoc-SGML is a text-formatting package based on SGML that will
> produce HTML as well as other marked up documents.
> Rainbow
> Rainbow is an annotated SGML DTD with converters for word processer
> documents (in RTF format) and documents created by the Ventura
> Publisher and Quark Express DTP packages. Additional software is
> needed to convert the SGML into HTML.
> __________________________________________________________________
> MS, CERN 17 March 1995
In addition, MicroSoft is also offering HTML utilities on their
ftp.microsoft.com
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