24) How can I convert from format Y to TeX or LaTeX, and vice-versa?

    troff - TROFF-TO-LATEX.TAR-Z is available via anonymous ftp from
      wsmr-simtel20.army.mil (26.2.0.74) in the directory
      pd2:[unix-c.textproc]. This program, written by Kamal Al-Yahya
      at Stanford, assists in the translation of a troff document into
      LaTeX format.  It recognizes most -ms and -man macros, plus most
      eqn and some tbl preprocessor commands. Anything fancier needs
      to be done by hand.  Two style files are provided.  There
      is also a man page (which converts very well to LaTeX :-).
      The program is copyrighted but free. An enhanced version of this
      program, tr2latex, is available from
      tupac-amaru.informatik.rwth-acchen.de (137.226.112.31) in
      ./pub/textproc/TeX. The DECUS TeX distribution (see question 22)
      also contains a program which converts troff to TeX. If you are
      interested in obtaining a copy of this program without getting the
      entire DECUS TeX distribution, send the command: SENDME TROFFTOTEX
      in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET
      (FILESERV@SHSU.edu), or use anonymous ftp to the directory
      [.TROFFTOTEX] on Niord.SHSU.edu (192.92.115.8).

    scribe - Mark James has a copy of scribe2latex he has been
      unable to test but which he will let anyone interested have.
      Send email to jamesm@procor.dialogic.com. The program was written
      by Van Jacobson of Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.

    wordperfect -  wp2latex.zip is available on wuarchive.wustl.edu
      (128.252.135.4) in the directory ./mirrors/msdos/tex and on
      wsmr-simtel20.army.mil (26.2.0.74) in the directory pd1:[msdos.tex].
      This is a PC program written in Turbo Pascal by R. C. Houtepen at
      the Eindhoven University in the Netherlands.  It converts
      WordPerfect 5.0 documents to LaTeX.  Pascal source is included.
      Users find it ``helpful'' and ``decent'' in spite of some
      limitations. It gets high marks for handling font changes.
      Limitations include no indices, table of contents, margins or
      graphics.  It also won't handle the new features of WordPerfect
      5.1, in particular the equation formatter. The program is
      copyrighted but free.

      Glenn Geers of the University of Sydney (glenn@qed.physics.su.oz.au)
      is translating wp2latex into C and adding some WordPerfect 5.1
      features, in particular its equation handling.  This is an ongoing
      project; the most recent version can be retrieved via anonymous ftp
      from suphys.physics.su.oz.au (129.78.129.1) in ./wp2latex. It is
      also available by anonymous ftp from ymir.claremont.edu
      (134.173.4.23) in the directory
      [anonymous.tex.ibm_pc.front_ends.wp2latex]. It was posted to
      alt.sources on 8 August 1990.

    PC-Write - pcwritex.arc is available on wuarchive.wustl.edu
      (128.252.135.4) in directory mirrors/msdos/tex and on
      wsmr-simtel20.army.mil (26.2.0.74) in directory pd1:[msdos.tex].
      This is a print driver for PC-Write that ``prints'' a PC-Write V2.71
      document to a TeX-compatible disk file.  It was written by Peter
      Flynn at University College, Cork, Ireland.  It is public domain.

    runoff - Peter Vanroose (vanroose@esat.kuleuven.ac.be) has
      written a RUNOFF-to-TeX conversion program in VMS Pascal.  It is
      available from comp.text archives (they do exist, don't they?  The
      program was submitted in December 1987) or from the author
      (peter@dit.lth.se) or from Mark James (jamesm@procor.dialogic.com).

    refer/Tib - There are a few programs for converting bibliographic data
      between BibTeX and refer/Tib formats.  They are available via
      anonymous ftp from ftp.ai.mit.edu (128.52.32.6) in the
      directory ./pub/refer-to-bibtex.  In spite of the directory name,
      it also contains a  shell script to convert BibTeX to REFER as
      well. This collection is maintained by
      Thomas M. Breuel (tmb@ai.mit.edu).

    RTF - A program for converting Microsoft's Rich Text Format to TeX
      is available via anonymous ftp from astro.princeton.edu
      (128.112.128.131) in ./pub/rtf2TeX.tar.Z. It was written and is
      maintained by Robert Lupton (rhl@astro.princeton.edu).

    Microsoft Word - A rudimentary program for converting MS-Word
      to LaTeX is wd2latex, for MS-DOS, available via anonymous ftp
      from ymir.claremont.edu (134.173.4.23) in
      [.tex.ibm_pc.front_ends]. Probably a better idea, however,
      is to convert the document to RTF format and use the RTF
      converter mentioned above.

    In addition, a group at Ohio State University is working on a common
    document format based on SGML.  In theory any format could be
    translated to or from this one.  Also, Framemaker supposedly has
    ``import filters'' to aid in the translation from alien formats
    (presumably including TeX) to Framemaker; perhaps other desktop
    publishing programs have similar things.
