LaTeX and Word

[grammatim]

I may get to reedit a chapter that's already gone to the typesetter,
who has converted it (from whatever it originally was) to LaTeX to
suit his hardware.

Can Word2003 import a LaTeX file (can it read its formatting codes?),
or do I need to get the word processing file that underlay the typeset
version?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I'll go out on a limb and suggest that no, it can't. At least, I don't see
anything in Word's Open dialog to suggest that there's a converter for it.
If a LaTeX file is essentially text, then Word can of course open it, but it
can't *interpret* it the way it can HTML.

 

[grammatim]

AIUI, LaTeX looks like html or maybe WordPerfect -- text with coding
around it. Its proponents tend to be mathematicians who _enjoy_
writing code instead of using a GUI.