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LaTeX to HTML on a Mac
1. Find your texbin directory. This is usually /usr/texbin, which is symlinked to wherever the actual directory is.
2. Add it to your PATH (i.e. `# export PATH=/usr/texbin:$PATH`)
3. Run the 'htlatex' command. This will convert your LaTeX file into an HTML document. Note that this really just a script around normal LaTeX, so you'll have to do the usual things (htlatex -> bibtex -> htlatex for citations, htlatex -> htlatex for references). I think: I had my LaTeX all PDF-LaTeXed and ready to go, so all the .bib/.toc/etc. files had already been created.
3.1. You might want to run 'htlatex file.tex "xhtml,fn-in"' if you have footnotes. Without that option, footnotes will be put into their own HTML file.
4. At this point, you have an HTML file. Check it and make sure it's good enough.
5. Open the HTML file in TextEdit. Oddly enough, Pages can't open HTML files, but TextEdit can. Go figure.
6. TextEdit can now save your file as an RTF or Doc file.
7. Success!
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