I'm using a typical word processor to write a book that I would like to later typeset with LaTeX. I've done some searching and there doesn't appear to be any easy way to do this. I've tried rtf2latex2e but that doesn't preserve italics and doesn't convert double quotes (") to the LaTeX `` and ''. I don't have any math formulas or fancy text that needs taking care of. It's just normal text, and the sporadic italics. I don't want to preserve the styling of the original document, I only want the text to be formatted so that it can be easily \included in a LaTeX file.
Is there any way I can continue to write in a word processor and convert to .tex later?
Best Answer
There is an Extension for OpenOffice Writer called Writer2LaTeX, just for this purpose. A similar one is available for LibreOffice, also called Writer2LaTeX.
:)Once you installed them, you will have the additional feature of exporting toLaTeXorBibTeXfrom theFile->Export...menu.I don't know about any similar solution for Microsoft Word...