Juergen Fenn wrote:
Sven Schreiber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I don't think this is a good idea. If you are supposed to provide MS
Word format you should use MS Word or at least OOo for writing your
paper. The point is that the TeX community has spent too little effort
on converters.
"That's a bold statement." (To quote a popular movie, IIRC.) Seriously,
although it's correct that especially between Latex and the Open Doc
Format better converters are needed, I don't think your advice is wise,
especially for people who are familiar and productive with Lyx. Btw,
what advice did you give before OOo existed? Everybody should buy (or
crack) msword?
I gave the same advice earlier. It doesn't matter whether you use a
wordprocessor other than MS Word or LaTeX directly or LyX. It's all
the same: If you know you are required to provide a DOC file for
submission to a journal then use Word and produce a DOC file of your
paper. Even OOo is second choice because it is not the
original. Everything else amounts to Cervantes' fight against
wind-mills...
Well, nobody wants to purchase word in order to publish
a single paper. It is expensive, and it is rather hard to install
on a non-windows platform too. Some of us don't have windows,
some computers won't even run windows due to the non-intel
processor.
And we know that they are _not_ going to print the word file
as-is in their publication anyway. Word isn't good enough,
so they always reformat with something else. They merely have
streamlined the conversion from word to whatever they use.
Therefore, a "word" file from openoffice is usually good enough.
Helge Hafting
