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Status of Tex2RTF

Tex2RTF is under continual development, often following users' suggestions. From version 1.33, Tex2RTF is effectively in a second phase of development. In addition to the bare minimum of syntax and facilities for producing useable help systems or linear RTF, commands are being added to allow visually effective, even aesthetically pleasing, documentation to be produced.

Examples are the \indented, \twocollist and \marginpar commands; over time I hope to be able to reproduce most of the popular styles of formatting and presentation in Windows Help files, whilst allowing a reasonable equivalent to be generated in the other formats.

Some new developments in the various formats still need to be catered for by Tex2RTF, such as Windows 95 help files and HTML 3.0. Features that can be added to Tex2RTF as a result of these developments include math and inline image map support in HTML, table support in Windows Help, and generally better formatting abilities in both. However, documentation about these formats is sketchy at the time of writing (October 1995).