Saturday, April 14, 2012

How to convert in Microsoft Word 2007 into LaTeX ??

Ever seen those sweet research papers with that awesome font? That’s LaTeX. If you are a die-hard LaTeX fan you can pretty much stop reading this post right now. For the rest of us, Microsoft Word 2007 is often a practical alternative when pressed for time.

I’ll be the first to admit that if you can be bothered getting your hands dirty, LaTeX makes documents look pretty damn sweet. If you just need to throw a quick document together, but want people to think you’re a LaTeX pro, you can get passable results using Word 2007 with a few tweaks:

Alternate #1. [ref-http://www.frostnova.net/archives/fake-latex.html ]

  1. First, download the Computer Modern and Latin Modern fonts. Word 2007 supports the OpenType format so get that. Don’t be disheartened by how these fonts look onscreen – some look like total arse, but let’s face it, these fonts were not designed for the screen at all. They look fine when printed or even in a PDF if you zoom in far enough. And stick with “LM Roman 12″ as it has the proper bold font, others may look strange. You can find even more fonts if you install a LaTeX distro like MikTeX and search the installation folder for *.pfm files.
  2. If you want to approximate BibTeX-style references, get the IEEE citation stylesheet for Microsoft Word 2007 and extract to
    C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\Bibliography\Style.
  3. Set up your heading sizes and turn on 1.2.3 section numbering. I can’t be bothered explaining how so here’s a sample word document to get you started.
  4. Make sure you use the LM fonts for all figures and diagrams for consistency. However, for built-in equations, you’re stuck with Cambria Math, which Microsoft built especially for equations, but it doesn’t look too bad.
Alternative #2 :
use online converter : http://www.wordtolatex.com/upload

Alternative 3:
use the template..
http://www.jchl.co.uk/computing/LaTeX.dot

Alternative 4 :

Use this S/w Easy ..

Word-to-LaTeX 2.40:

Thanks
Dipankar

2 comments:

  1. Outstanding posting, you have mentioned about to convert in Microsoft Word 2007 into LaTeX, it is very useful for us.
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