Shoot, I forgot to post a summary. Sorry for the delay! The solution
I wound up with, thanks to many people suggesting it, was to use
StarOffice, which is a MS compatible office suite that is freely
available on the Web. I've used it and it's very nice -- it was
trivial to install under Solaris and it does what I need it to. You
can find it at:
http://www.sun.com/staroffice/
Alternative suggestions included:
- Linux package, rtf2latex, that can convert Word documents to LaTex.
- http://www.csn.ul.ie/~caolan/docs/MSWordView.html
which will convert MSWord to HTML.
- http://www.w3.org/Tools/Word_proc_filters.html
for a bunch of links for conversion routines, some of which even work
on Unix.
- http://www.fz-juelich.de/isr/1/texconv/pctotex.html
a number of PC to Unix converters
- catdoc (a Unix utility written by V.B.Wagner <vitus@fe.msk.su>)
- There are at least two commercial solutions, one from Inso
(OutsideIn) and one from Verity (KeyView). Both can convert many
versions of Word (and a number of other formats) to HTML. You might
have to cleanse the resulting HTML for your purposes, since the two
products tend to focus on layout fidelity.
I know that Inso has a web server version of OutsideIn that I'm
betting can be set up on various Unix servers (they support Solaris,
HP-UX and AIX if I'm not mistaken), and I know that Verity supports
Unix as well, but they might only have an SDK product available.
I'm grateful to the following people for their replies.
Bob Krovetz <krovetz@research.nj.nec.com>
Larry Spitz <spitz@docrec.com>
John McNaught <jock@ccl.umist.ac.uk>
Stephen Green <sjgreen@ics.mq.edu.au>
Ted E. Dunning <ted@hncais.com>
Gregory Grefenstette <Gregory.Grefenstette@xrce.xerox.com>
Stefan Evert <evert@IMS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE>
Jean Carletta <jeanc@mail.cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Constantin ORASAN <in6093@wlv.ac.uk>
Lluís Padró <padro@lsi.upc.es>
Ian Hersey <ihersey@inxight.com>
Robert Freeman <rjfreeman@email.com>
Best,
Philip
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