Dear Sir or Madam,
My name is Noyan Kinayman and I am the co-author of an engineering book called Modern Microwave Engineering: http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y <http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9781580 537254&itm=1> &EAN=9781580537254&itm=1 We have used Microsoft Word to prepare the first edition, but now thinking to translate the whole project into LaTex for the second version. Microsoft Word is getting simply not sufficient. For this purpose, I have tested OpenOffice.org Writer's export to LaTex utility, which worked fairly well. Regarding this, I would have few questions: 1\ The chapters of the book are quite involved in terms of mathematical equations, figures, bookmarks and cross-references. During the import process, Writer changed the aspect ratio of some of the equation objects and hanged-up when I tried to edit few of those objects. I was wondering, if I send you a chapter of our book, would you be willing to test it for the purpose of making the software better and providing us some feedback? 2\ During exporting to LaTex, all the bookmarks seemed to be converted using \label{...} properly. Cross-references, however, were hard-coded. That is, I would expect that the use of \ref{...} in the LaTex to address the cross-references properly. After all, cross-referencing is very important in projects spanning many sections and chapters with lot's of equations, figures, etc. Do you have any plans to incorporating cross-references in the LaTex translation using \ref{...} commands? Thank you very much for your help and looking forward to hear from you. -Noyan
