On 08.10.2007, at 17:30, Adam M. Goldstein wrote:

> On Oct 8, 2007, at 10:35 AM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
>
>>
>> On Oct 8, 2007, at 04:10, Jason Davies wrote:
>>
>>>> As an alternative for collaborative work that has to use some
>>>> kind of
>>>> "widely accepted commercial software", I use LaTeX / BibTeX >
>>>> latex2rtf. So I can at least write my initial text and citations
>>>> in a
>>>> manner that does not completely drive me crazy…
>>>
>>> yes, I've been doing this increasingly too. Most annoying is
>>> when it's part of a collection that you can bet the publisher
>>> will convert back to LaTeX or XML from the Word version you
>>> provided the editor!
>>
>> Yeah, this is precisely what I do as well.  Using latex2rtf at least
>> avoids most of the insanity of trying to enter and reference figures/
>> tables/equations/citations in a word processor.  Since it (fully?)
>> supports natbib, there's pretty good bibliography support as well.
>
> I will put in another vote for this strategy, which I use frequently.
> I haven't had any problems with using bib styles of my own creation,
> either.

IME latex2rtf is way too limited. It doesn't produce anything useful  
with either jurabib nor biblatex which is a big problem for people in  
humanities.

simon
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