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<H1>Why K-Talk's software doesn't work for me</H1>
<P>last update: May 25, 1998</P>
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<H3>Distinguish two groups of causes why K-Talk's software doesn't work for me:
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<H3>A. General Problems</H3>
<P>1. K-Talk's software uses their own formula editor "MathEdit",
which is incompatible with Microsoft's equation editor. Therefore if I convert
a LaTeX file to word, only users having K-Talk's MathEdit are able to use the
converted file.</P>
<P>2. On the PC wordprocessor side, K-Talk's software primarily uses the
WordPerfect 5.1 format. MS Word users must install extra macros for conversion
to a "tagged document file". <BR>
These macros however are written for Word6 and need some dlls belonging to
word6 which I don't have because I have word7(95). So I could not get them
running.</P>
<P>3. Capacity: on converting the "LaTeX2e Kurzbeschreibung" (from
CTAN, "l2kurz.tex" plus include-files) I get the error message
"file l2k2.tex too large to include".<BR>
As LaTeX is intended for large documents, a professional converter should be
able to convert large documents!</P>
<H3>B. Localization Problems</H3>
<P>1. In addition to being not compatible with MS word versions later than
word6, the word macros need to be localized if one doesn't have the English
version of Word.</P>
<P>2. TexPort doesn't recognize German umlauts used in german.sty - see the
converted example "l2kurz"</P>
<H3>Sample of Converted Files (LaTeX -> WP)</H3>
<P><A HREF="bin/essent.zip">essent.zip</A> containing the files:<BR>
essential.tex, hndout.sty=LaTeX source<BR>
essent.wp5=wp5.1 file converted by TexPort </P>
<P><A HREF="bin/l2kurz.zip">l2kurz.zip</A> containing the files:<BR>
l2kurz.tex, l2k1.tex, l2k2.tex, l2k3.tex, l2k4.tex, l2ksym.tex, a4.sty,
german.sty=LaTeX source<BR>
l2kurz.wp5=wp5.1 file converted by TexPort</P>
<P>where essential.tex and l2kurz.tex are originals from CTAN.</P>
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