[ddp] catdoc : MS-Word to TeX or plain text converter

[daily-debian-package at enix.org]

Hello,

Today, I'm happy to present you the Debian package catdoc, which is
part of the text section, and maintained by Pawel Wiecek
<coven at debian.org>. 

This package contains : MS-Word to TeX or plain text converter.

This program extracts text from MS-Word files, trying to preserve
as many special printable characters as possible. catdoc supports
everything up to Word-97. Also supported are MS Write documents and RTF
files.

It doesn't even try to preserve fancy Word formatting, because
Word users usually don't care about document structure, and it is
this very thing which is important to LaTeX users.

Also provided is xls2csv, which extracts data from Excel spreadsheets
and outputs it in comma-separated-value format and catppt, which extracts
data from PowerPoint presentations.

This package suggests tk because it also includes wordview, an
optional Tk-based GUI for catdoc.  The MIME config provided in this
package will use wordview is X is running, or catdoc directly if it
is not.

Homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/catdoc


Package homepage     :
 http://packages.debian.org/unstable/text/catdoc

Package bug homepage :
 http://bugs.debian.org/catdoc

Package QA homepage  :
 http://packages.qa.debian.org/catdoc

Have fun with Debian packages !

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