Anyone know of an FM to TeX "converter"

[Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain@aeris.net)]

Interesting! They have a MIF to LaTeX converter ... if the original FM document used their la_temp templates ...

I will have to see how much work might be involved in using the la_temp templates to change my existing FM files ...

Thanks again, David!

Z

From: Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain at aeris.net)
Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 1:48 PM
To: David Spreadbury; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: Anyone know of an FM to TeX "converter"

Thanks much, David. I will take a look ... I should have thunk to search first, but was hoping someone here already knew the answer. :)

Z

From: David Spreadbury [mailto:dspreadb at yahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 1:47 PM
To: Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain at aeris.net<mailto:Syed.Hosain at aeris.net>); framers at lists.frameusers.com<mailto:framers at lists.frameusers.com>
Subject: Re: Anyone know of an FM to TeX "converter"

A little more searching found this link http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~kjt/software/framemaker/.
Maybe something there can help.


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From: David Spreadbury <dspreadb at yahoo.com<mailto:dspreadb at yahoo.com>>
To: "Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain at aeris.net<mailto:Syed.Hosain at aeris.net>)" <Syed.Hosain at aeris.net<mailto:Syed.Hosain at aeris.net>>; "framers at lists.frameusers.com<mailto:framers at lists.frameusers.com>" <framers at lists.frameusers.com<mailto:framers at lists.frameusers.com>>
Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 3:41 PM
Subject: Re: Anyone know of an FM to TeX "converter"

Syed,
If you do a search for "convert to LaTeX" you will find several ways listed, but none from raw FrameMaker. But, there are ways to convert Word or RTF to LaTex, as well as HTML to LaTex. Not the cleanest I am sure, but maybe possible. Frame -> Word or RTF -- Word/RTF -> LaTeX??


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From: "Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain at aeris.net<mailto:Syed.Hosain at aeris.net>)" <Syed.Hosain at aeris.net<mailto:Syed.Hosain at aeris.net>>
To: "framers at lists.frameusers.com<mailto:framers at lists.frameusers.com>" <framers at lists.frameusers.com<mailto:framers at lists.frameusers.com>>
Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 3:27 PM
Subject: Anyone know of an FM to TeX "converter"

Hi, all.

As the subject says ... a MIF (or binary-FM) to TeX would be a good tool!

LaTeX would be far more useful, but I suspect that getting a clean fit from _any_ given FM file to templates in LaTeX might be difficult. Getting the output "close enough" would be workable, as long as I could tweak the output files to make them work out well in LaTeX.

In my search to reduce my dependency on FrameMaker (because of the recent Adobe pricing and cloud decisions), I am hoping to change my 17+ years of FrameMaker files to another format. I  have used LaTeX in the distant past, and for 90% of my specifications written in FrameMaker, it would be a completely workable solution! The remaining ones could be moved to Word.

Z

P.S.: Jeremy (hoping you are reading this e-mail), does Mif2Go perhaps support output in TeX? Or any possible plans to do so?

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