Document Templating / Report Generation solution?

[Howard Gibson]

On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:47:13 -0500
Neil Watson <tlug-neil-8agRmHhQ+n2CxnSzwYWP7Q at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:42:13PM -0500, S P Arif Sahari Wibowo wrote:
> > How good are latex exports to MS Word or OpenOffice.org?
> 
> You can output to RTF but the results are poor.  I posted here a while
> back about trying to create a Word version of my resume from the Latex
> source.  I ended up having to keep two versions.  One in Latex to offer
> HTML, PDF and text.  The other was Word which I hate giving out because
> the head hunters have a habit of reformatting or changing it.

Neil,

   I use latex2rtf for this.  Visually, the text formatting is actually not bad.  All of LaTeX's intelligence is gone, unfortunately.  It would nice to have something that would write LaTeX out with a logical style sheet.  

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