[plug] Building a GUI app to generate a wordprocessed letter

[Jason Smith]

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On Monday 10 March 2003 08:38 pm, Derek Fountain wrote:
> The problem here is that LyX and LaTeX aren't really user facing things
> when it comes to simple letters and the like. The user here is my

Another problem with LyX is that in my experience, it doesn't produce 
human-readable LaTeX.  And LaTeX is supposed to be a human-readable 
format, when done right.

> She currently uses Win2K, with Wordperfect. I should be able to sway
> her towards OO if there's a reason to do so. UNIX based typesetting
> tools are probably too much of a jump.

It's been years -- does word perfect support RTF?  I did a quick search on 
freshmeat and found latex2rtf.  Sounds pretty handy:
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/latex2rtf/

I just installed it, and it seems to work as advertised.  It also comes 
with a some sample source texts.  I imagine that you could make a simple 
form with a reasonably small LaTeX source file.

And if you're feeling particularly sneaky, you could output a file with a 
different extension (".OOo").  Tell her it's a proprietary OpenOffice.org 
format, and she must install that to reap the proposed convenience 
benefit.

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