The initialisation file contains further detailed options for customising Tex2RTF's behaviour. A file may be specified with the -macros command line switch, otherwise Tex2RTF looks for the file tex2rtf.ini in the working directory or input file directory.
The file may comprise macro definitions or option settings.
The syntax for a macro definition is:
\name [number of args] {...LaTeX code...}
For example:
\crazy [2]{{\bf #2} is crazy but #1 is not}
\something [0]{}
\julian [0]{Julian Smart}
The syntax for an option setting is:
name = value
or
name = "value"
For example:
conversionMode = RTF runTwice = true titleFontSize = 12 authorFontSize = 10 headerRule = yes footerRule = yes
Options expecting boolean values accept 1, 0, true, false, yes, no in any combination of upper or lower case.
End-of-line comments are allowed in an initialisation file, using the hash, semicolon or percent signs to denote the start of a comment, which runs until the end of the line.