This is an announcement of the second patch to "rtf2LaTeX", a RTF to LaTeX converter. The patch corrects several bugs reported to me via mail and on comp.text.tex. Incorporated is the Apple Macintosh Port by Alex Viskovatoff (viskov@harvard.edu). RTF is the "Rich Text Format" a format to exchange documents. The format can be generated by several Text Processors, for example Microsoft Word and some programs on a Next. There already is a program to convert RTF to (plain) TeX written by Robert Lupton called rtf2tex. rtf2LaTeX is based on this program but tries to produce correct LaTeX which is in a form suitable for further editing after conversion. rtf2LaTeX is based on Paul DuBois' rtf reader package. It contains some modifications to the original reader. These changes were sent to Paul DuBois and are incorporated into a new release of his code. rtf2LaTeX was written by Erwin Wechtl as a one-semester practical work at our department. It may still contain bugs. If my time permits I will try to maintain the package, but note that I didn't write the code and so I will also have to dig into the sources if something goes wrong. The sources to the new version 1.5 as well as the diffs from version 1.3 to 1.5 (1.4 was an internal release) can be obtained by anonymous ftp from: ftp.vmars.tuwien.ac.at in the directory /pub/misc in the file rtf2LaTeX.1.5.tar.gz and the patch is rtf2LaTeX.patch1.3-1.5.gz you need the new gunzip program to uncompress the file. Sources can be obtained from the same ftp server in /pub/gnu/gzip-1.1.2.tar.gz (This is NOT a joke, if you don't have a version of gzip installed, you can download without specifying the .gz extension and the file will get decompressed while downloading). This, however may not be the current version. Alternatively you can specify the file name rtf2LaTeX.1.5.tar when downloading via ftp and the program will get decompressed while downloading. The same sources and an executable program for the Mac can be obtained from the same ftp server in the directory /pub/apple/mac in the file rtf2LaTeX.sea.hqx -- Ralf Schlatterbeck Treitlstr.3/182/1 email: ralf@vmars.tuwien.ac.at A-1040 Wien Phone: +43/222/58801/8176 Austria FAX: +43/222/569149