Bad thing most of us work in Windows. Hope someday PDF's can be commented by default, or at least that you don't need Acrobat Professional to make them able for comments.
On 5/10/07, Russell Davie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thu, 10 May 2007 08:24:34 +0200 "Julio Rojas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What I'm really amazed of, is the quantity of technical and > engineering congresses that "ask" the authors to submit their papers > is Word format and don't have (and don't support) LaTeX styles. > > I'm doing some evangelism with my friends that are working on their > PhD's to switch to LyX/LaTeX. They instantly love the typesetting, the > styles and the formula typing. The problem is not only congresses > their making articles for, but their own tutors don't work and never > have worked with LaTeX. That by itself, stop them in their effort. If > at least LyX/LaTeX generated PDF's could be commented by default (or > using a switch), their switch would be smoother. I proof read and commented a friend's thesis that they wrote in latex and which was sent to me as pdf or ps. This used flpsed which places a comment into the a ps or pdf. Only one series of comments can be done. Later I was able to check to comments using psdiff. It all worked perfectly. There was a very tight time schedule and I was able to easily submit the proofs to the author who went to submit the final version on time. flpsed: http://www.ecademix.com/JohannesHofmann/flpsed.html psdiff: http://www.intermemory.org/pny/software/psdiff/main.html I used Linux and the flsped is available as a Ubuntu deb package. Annotating pdf? no excuses now! cheers Russell > > On 5/9/07, David L. Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Steve Litt wrote: > > > > > Big publishers like O'Reilly (or in the case of my Samba Unleashed, Sams) take > > > complete control of the book's layout. Working with a mainstream publisher is > > > the ultimate WYSIWYM experience -- you as the author are responsible only for > > > content. Your publisher gives you a list of styles you may (and must) use and > > > a stylesheet telling how and when to use them. You do that, and the publisher > > > takes care of the rest. > > > > > > If the publisher were to accept a LyX document (or LaTeX), they'd either need > > > to accept the author's layout (bad idea when you publish a uniform series > > > like Unleashed or Nutshell), or they'd need to translate back into MS Word > > > with appropriate styles. > > > > Not at all. Some publishers (granted, all I know about are math > > journals, which form a biased and tiny subset of publishers) simply > > require you to use their specific TeX style files --- which is easy to > > do in TeX, and not so bad in LyX either, in fact, some of the Springer > > styles (kluwer) are already included in LyX. No reason to translate > > into Word. Also, going from one TeX style to another is far easier than > > trying to do the same thing in Word. > > > > > > Another reason they use MS Word is because MS Word has facilities to track > > > changes, so the chapter documents that keep getting sent back and forth > > > contain a complete history of queries, reponses and changes. > > > > This is also easy to do in LyX/TeX, but it is also dangerous to keep > > such information in a document by default. It can be very embarrassing, > > say, in a job offer letter, to be able to see what the original salary > > offer was, before upper management cut it by 25%. This may be less of a > > problem in this case, but still unwanted information can be transmitted. > > > > > > Of course, one could ask "why not make LyX the official "wordprocessor" > > > instead of MS Word, and supply a LyX layout instead of a MS Word style > > > template. The answer is simply that it's very hard to find willing and > > > qualified authors for the amount mainstream publishers are willing to pay, > > > and it would be far easier to get the few LyX/LaTeX users to switch to MS > > > Word than to get the multitudes of MS Word users to switch to LyX, which many > > > haven't heard of, don't have, and don't know how to install. > > > > This should be less of a concern for the likes of O'Reilly, who really > > do support open source, the antithesis of MS practice. > > > > -- > > > > David L. Johnson > > > > Let's be straight here. If we find something we can't understand > > we like to call it something you can't understand, > > or indeed even pronounce. -- Douglas Adams > > > > > -- > ------------------------------------------------- > Julio Rojas > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Please, if possible, don't send me MS Word or Powerpoint attachments. Send plain text, rich text format, html, or pdf instead. Why? See: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/sylvester-response.html
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