A perennial problem for Latex users in fields where journal editors
expect authors to submit Word files is how to convert files with
complex referencing, such as that produced with Biblatex.  I used to
use tex4ht, but have found that very brittle.  I recently discovered a
new strategy, which involves redefining macros like emph so that these
very commands appear once again in the output text.  I then run the
PDF through pdftotext and do a bit of munging with a perl script.  The
resulting text file can then be run through a converter such as
latex2rtf.  Obviously, it's not foolproof, but for my purposes it
works perfectly.

Download and instructions here:
http://www.dur.ac.uk/p.j.heslin/Software/Latex/latex2doc.php

Peter Heslin

On Mar 7, 6:56=A0pm, Peter <phes...@gmail.com> wrote:
> A perennial problem for Latex users in fields where journal editors
> expect authors to submit Word files is how to convert files with
> complex referencing, such as that produced with Biblatex. =A0I used to
> use tex4ht, but have found that very brittle. =A0I recently discovered a
> new strategy, which involves redefining macros like emph so that these
> very commands appear once again in the output text. =A0I then run the
> PDF through pdftotext and do a bit of munging with a perl script. =A0The
> resulting text file can then be run through a converter such as
> latex2rtf. =A0Obviously, it's not foolproof, but for my purposes it
> works perfectly.
>
> Download and instructions here:http://www.dur.ac.uk/p.j.heslin/Software/L=
atex/latex2doc.php
>
> Peter Heslin

Peter

Thanks for providing such nice script. I am sure this is going to be
very helpful to me and many other folks here. I have run into this
sort of scenario many times in the past where I needed to convert
my .tex source file to .doc for collaborators and it has always been a
huge waste of time. I appreciate your effort for making things
smoother. Regards,

Tariq