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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Interesting! They have a MIF to LaTeX converter … if the original FM document used their la_temp templates …<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I will have to see how much work might be involved in using the la_temp templates to change my existing FM files …<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thanks again, David!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Z<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain@aeris.net) <br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, May 28, 2013 1:48 PM<br><b>To:</b> David Spreadbury; framers@lists.frameusers.com<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: Anyone know of an FM to TeX "converter"<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thanks much, David. I will take a look … I should have thunk to search first, but was hoping someone here already knew the answer. </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#1F497D'>J</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Z<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> David Spreadbury [<a href="mailto:dspreadb@yahoo.com">mailto:dspreadb@yahoo.com</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, May 28, 2013 1:47 PM<br><b>To:</b> Syed Zaeem Hosain (<a href="mailto:Syed.Hosain@aeris.net">Syed.Hosain@aeris.net</a>); <a href="mailto:framers@lists.frameusers.com">framers@lists.frameusers.com</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: Anyone know of an FM to TeX "converter"<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console";color:black'>A little more searching found this link <a href="http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~kjt/software/framemaker/">http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~kjt/software/framemaker/</a>.<br>Maybe something there can help.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><div><div><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><span style='color:black'><hr size=1 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> David Spreadbury <<a href="mailto:dspreadb@yahoo.com">dspreadb@yahoo.com</a>><br><b>To:</b> "Syed Zaeem Hosain (<a href="mailto:Syed.Hosain@aeris.net">Syed.Hosain@aeris.net</a>)" <<a href="mailto:Syed.Hosain@aeris.net">Syed.Hosain@aeris.net</a>>; "<a href="mailto:framers@lists.frameusers.com">framers@lists.frameusers.com</a>" <<a href="mailto:framers@lists.frameusers.com">framers@lists.frameusers.com</a>> <br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, May 28, 2013 3:41 PM<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: Anyone know of an FM to TeX "converter"</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div id=yiv0387458414><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console";color:black'>Syed,<br>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??<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><div><div><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><span style='color:black'><hr size=1 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> "Syed Zaeem Hosain (<a href="mailto:Syed.Hosain@aeris.net">Syed.Hosain@aeris.net</a>)" <<a href="mailto:Syed.Hosain@aeris.net">Syed.Hosain@aeris.net</a>><br><b>To:</b> "<a href="mailto:framers@lists.frameusers.com">framers@lists.frameusers.com</a>" <<a href="mailto:framers@lists.frameusers.com">framers@lists.frameusers.com</a>> <br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, May 28, 2013 3:27 PM<br><b>Subject:</b> Anyone know of an FM to TeX "converter"</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white'><span style='color:black'><br>Hi, all.<br><br>As the subject says ... a MIF (or binary-FM) to TeX would be a good tool!<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>Z<br><br>P.S.: Jeremy (hoping you are reading this e-mail), does Mif2Go perhaps support output in TeX? 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