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I'm preparing a book to be published and keeping everything in .docx files. Other than text the files include graphs (jpeg) and lots of equations typed in MathType. Since MS Word is not fully appropriate to balance text and shapes according to book format, some pages are having spacings at the bottom after some text, and then comes a shape on the next page. I know that LaTeX is very good at formatting, so is it possible to convert MS Word documents (or PDF documents, since I can easily convert them to PDF) into LaTeX format so that I can handle my work in LaTeX from now on?
Have you google'd this problem? I believe there are multiple tools that do what you want. – Jonno_FTW – 2010-05-14T07:44:58.603
1No I didn't. Instead I wanted to ask experienced SuperUsers for convenience. – Mehper C. Palavuzlar – 2010-05-14T08:23:47.507
1Mehper: LaTeX is no magic bullet. Typesetting and layout is as much an art as it is craft and while LaTeX may have a few sensible defaults and well-written packages there is much it can't do automatically. Just a note of warning, but pouring LaTeX on your document won't magically make it better. Not by itself. – Joey – 2010-05-15T07:10:31.360
See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3183099/how-can-i-convert-an-rtf-or-doc-document-to-latex
– Charles Stewart – 2010-07-07T08:08:22.890