>>From: "br" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>>Subject: unsubscribe...
>>Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 17:03:09 +0200
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>>My work is finished with lyx...great program!
>>And the text looks very nice too...
>>unfortunately univ.chair wants me writing my next documents
>>in MS WORD... this sucks! but i'll probably do it..
>>CU i'm off..
>>
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There exists translators from LaTeX towards MS Word.
Among the various possible ways, it seems to me that going to RTF
is the most efficient, even if it's not perfect
(going to HTML, then reading the HTML with MS Word
works fine for figures, tables, and bibliographies, but is complicated for
equations (with e.g. LaTeX2HTML, display equations rendered as figures
with enhanced resolution is OK,
but MS Word importer from HTML is unable to use the fine
work done by l2h and the inline equations are not centered on the line).
Moreover, the MS Word document looses the markup of the
HTML document, so that the translation cannot be reverted with e.g.
rtf2latex2e.
Each time I give explanations about typesetting with LaTeX,
I get the question: � What about MS Word ?�.
Clearly an effort (once more) is needed by the free software
community to get a good translation from LaTeX to MS Word.
This should not be underestimated, because the look and feel of LyX
is not sufficient to turn MS Word users towards LyX. When LyX
users will be able to produce Word documents, they will be free to use
their favorite typesetter and able at the same time to fulfill
the requirements of MS Word,
� The Word Processor of the Last Century � as we will
say after Dec. 31, 2000 :-)
--
Jean-Pierre
