Wild stab in the dark: LaTeX to MIF

[Alan Litchfield]

Steve Rickaby wrote:
> Without having thoroughly thought it through, it seems possible in principle
> to construct a LaTeX to MIF filter using a default template. Does anyone know
> if this has ever been tried? Sources?

I haven't had to. If anything I have had to go back the other way (since the
demise of FM on the Mac most Mac-based work is now LaTeX).

>
> I have found MIF to LaTeX and LaTeX to MML here:
>
> <http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~kjt/software/framemaker/>

I have used some of the tools on there before, with moderate success.

>
> The Athena site at MIT seems to have cracked this, but using proprietary apps
> running in a Unix command line and going via MML:
>
> % la2mml filename1.tex | mmltomif > filename2.mif

Would be relatively trivial to make this into a shell script, negating the
need for a pipe.

Probably, the existence of the LaTeX->MML translators rather than LaTeX->MIF
has occurred because both LaTeX and MML use ascii only, whereas, while MIF
also uses ascii, it can also include binary data. Hence the second step,
MML->MIF.

Alan