On 2007-October-08 , at 18:03 , Simon Spiegel wrote: > 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.
I also use latex2rtf but simply because there is no real alternative. I also found it has many limitations: - I have found that it does not respect natbib settings for inline citations (at least) - it does not support utf8 coded documents - the equations are converted to pictures (in the best cases) .... I tried tex4ht to produce word or openoffice documents, which has other, different flaws. In particular, it tries to reproduce the layout of the document also, and fails quite often. I wish there was one simple way to convert content and structure (but not layout - I don't see the point of doing this) from latex to rtf/odf and back... or I wish everyone uses latex but this is probably another debate ;) JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
