LaTeX to QuarkXpress?

Kees de Koning

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Feb 25, 1997, 3:00:00 AM2/25/97

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Hi all,

I'm facing a rather tough problem: I have a 160 page manuscript
including loads of pictures (eps), tables, footnotes, cross references,
bibliographic references, a subject and a name index, written in
LaTeX, which should be imported some way or another into QuarkXpress,
so the actual layout can be done there (it's a scientific thesis).

Of course, I don't expect anything perfect, as most things should
be done by hand anyway. But I worry a bit about the footnotes/
references/subject index/name index, each of which has about a hundred
or more items.

Two main questions remain:

* How to convert?
I looked around on the web, and as far as I can see, there are
two options: via RTF format or via HTML. Does anybody know which
is better and what tools to use for it? Or is there an even better
way? Platform on which to convert doesn't matter, but destination
is Mac QuarkXpress.

* How to deal with cross refs, bib refs, footnotes etc. in Quark?
I'm not the expert in Quark, but as I understood Xpress cannot
do automatic footnotes? And what about subject indexes then?

Please cc any replies to my mailbox as well, because our news connection
is extremely flaky lately.

Thanks a lot in advance,

Kees

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Olivier RANDIER

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Feb 27, 1997, 3:00:00 AM2/27/97

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In article <3312FB17...@swi.psy.uva.nl>, Kees de Koning
<ke...@swi.psy.uva.nl> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm facing a rather tough problem: I have a 160 page manuscript
> including loads of pictures (eps), tables, footnotes, cross references,
> bibliographic references, a subject and a name index, written in
> LaTeX, which should be imported some way or another into QuarkXpress,
> so the actual layout can be done there (it's a scientific thesis).

I'm not sure this could help, but I'm currently doing a book for Texas
Instruments with lots of math formulas. The maths had been done in TeX, we
have an XTension, MathX that allows to open the resulting XPress doc with
imported TeX formulas. Seems to work good, though it's pretty limited
(can't change maths font attributes).

Hope this helps...

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Olivier -- Experluette

Gerry Stoner

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Mar 1, 1997, 3:00:00 AM3/1/97

to Kees de Koning

Kees de Koning wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm facing a rather tough problem: I have a 160 page manuscript
> including loads of pictures (eps), tables, footnotes, cross references,
> bibliographic references, a subject and a name index, written in
> LaTeX, which should be imported some way or another into QuarkXpress,
> so the actual layout can be done there (it's a scientific thesis).

Check a company called Blue Sky Research in Denver. They publish
Textures, TEX for the Mac, and have an extension for the setting of TEX
math within Quark.
Or, set the book in TEX. If it were us, I think that we would probably
output it from the TEX files, but a workable alternative would be to use
Quark for the layout and import the TEX sections that you are happy with
. . .
ger...@genericcomp.com