Latex in a wider workflow (Format Conversion)

Unusually for a historian, I became rather wedded to LaTeX while I was
writing my doctorate. Although in humanities the benefits are not
quite as clear (we don't need to typeset difficult equations) the
reference management alone keeps me using Latex/Bibtex, while the high
quality of finished documents is obviously welcome. For something
like a thesis, or for my own course materials, I would recommend
nothing better.

But I am now producing documents that are going to be ultimately
typeset by other people. While in my own workflow, Latex still makes
sense, if I can't then give other people a document they can use in
their own systems, I may have to switch to the de facto standard in
history, which is currently MS Word.

So here is my question. Is there any tool which I can use that will
convert from a dvi or pdf file to a word-compatible format (maybe via
html) that would preserve:

a. The text (obviously), with bold and emphasis.
b. Footnotes.

For extra points, titles in some other font would be nice.

I'm not trying to find a tool that will produce a good finished
document, just one that will allow me to write in Latex and hand the
document to my publishers / editors in a form which is useful to
them. They don't want to have retype all my text, and I don't want to
switch to using Word if I can avoid it.

I *thought* that the point of a dvi file was that this kind of thing
ought to be easy, but I'm drawing a blank.

I realise that forms of this question are asked from time to time, but
a search of this group hasn't yet yielded a good answer.

Best wishes,

Nicholas
PS. I'm on a Mac, but could use other operating systems if that would
be easier.
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