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word2x(1)			LOCAL COMMANDS			     word2x(1)

NAME
       word2x -	convert	word 6 documents to another format

SYNOPSIS
       word2x [-Vhvq] [-w width] [-f format] [-d date-style] files...

DESCRIPTION
       word2x  is  a program that attempts to produce a	component, if not per-
       fect rendition of a word	6 document. It guesses rather a	lot from  con-
       text and	can make mistakes. Pictures are	not supported and will not ap-
       pear.  There is very limited maths support in LaTeX mode, mainly	due to
       lack of samples of mathematics. (I probably should have done this using
       TeX catcode and macro magic, instead of writing special code).

       Input files must	be seekable and	therefore stdin	is  not	 allowed.  The
       files argument is of the	form input file, output	file, input file, out-
       put  file etc. -	may be used for	stdout in the output file. If the out-
       put file	is not sepcified a named is generated by adding	on an appropi-
       ate suffix in place of .DOC (or .doc). Both .DOC	and .doc are added au-
       tomatically if the file name specified can not be found.

       As a special exception to the above any file ending on .doc or .DOC  is
       assumed	to  be	an input file. This allows one to type word2x -f latex
       *.DOC, for example.

OPTIONS
       -V, --version
	      print version on stderr and exit.

       -h, --help
	      show synopsis, output and	date formats supported.

       -v, --verbose
	      be (moderately) verbose

       -q, --quiet
	      supress non-error	messages (this is the default).

       -w, --width
	      set the maximum width of a line in the output

       -d, --dates
	      set the date format. Currently the  formats  supported  are  uk,
	      british,	us.  uk	dates are 22nd April, 1997, for	example	and US
	      style dates April	22nd, 1997.  british is	a synonym for uk.  The
	      default is uk.

       -f, --format
	      Set the output format. Currently text and	latex  are  supported.
	      The  LaTeX  output  requires the AMS LaTeX package and LaTeX 2e.
	      It should	be reasonably easy to add another format, however some
	      formats do a large amount	of context guesswork, for example  the
	      LaTeX  format  (esp.   in	the paragraph handling code).  text is
	      the default.

BUGS
       One argument does not produce output on stdout

       The reader sometimes generates error messages when it is	confused.

       The equation support is limited to only fractions at present.

       The program appears to understand a lot more than it really does.

       Pictures	are silently disguared.

       Fast save files are not supported.

       The conversion is not perfect and needs manual cleaning up.

       Non-word	files silently produce empty output in most cases.

       Equations are not supported in text output.

       If the cues the program recognised LaTeX	mode  does  little  more  than
       produce LaTeX format tables and plain text output.

AUTHOR
       word2x  is (C) Duncan Simpson 1997 and may be distributed under the GPL
       version 2, or any later version at  your	 option.  I  would  appreciate
       patches and information emailed to dps@io.stargate.co.uk

Duncan Simpson			1st April 1997			     word2x(1)

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