LaTeX to FrameMaker MML Translator

See the download page to obtain this program

Description

This is a program to convert LaTeX source files into FrameMaker MML (Maker Markup Language) format. Run la_mml on a LaTeX file to generate MML output:

la_mml -a myarticle.tex

Now open la_mml.mml with FrameMaker. The resulting format will be approximate. To improve it do the following:

• obtain the la_temp LaTeX-like FrameMaker templates by the author
• open the article template in FrameMaker
• invoke the "use formats from" feature of FrameMaker to apply the article template to your converted document
• save the FrameMaker document

Documents may start with the \documentstyle command (LaTeX 2.09), or with \documentclass and \usepackage (LaTeX2e). Style files and packages are largely ignored.

Options

-a

process as an article

-b

process as a book

-r

process as a report

-v

display program version

-A

generate all paragraph formats on MML output

-U

list unconverted LaTeX commands to standard error

History

Original version by R. Nigel Horspool <nigelh@csr.uvic.ca>, 1994

Extended version by Ken Turner and Felicia P. Hsu, 27th Sep 1994

• paragraph and character formats changed to match those of the la_temp LaTeX-like FrameMaker templates
• appendixes handled properly
• nested lists handled properly

Revised version by Ken Turner, 4th May 1997

• some support for \documentclass and \usepackage added

Revised version by Ken Turner, 29th Mar 2008

• made compilable under Cygwin/MingW
• Win32 binary pre-built in the distribution
• initialisations of "accent_tab", "paratable" and "chfmttable" in "tables.c" fully completed to avoid warnings about missing initialisers
• "eof" renamed as "endoffile" "tables.h" and "tables.c" to avoid clash with MingW
• "open_tmpfile" introduced in place of "tmpfile" as the latter tries to open temporary files in the root directory on Windows