On 27/10/2005, at 7:26 AM, Pat Scott wrote:
Hello,
Does anyone out there use LaTeX? My husband need some advice.
He is a newbie with a Macintosh - has had his 15" G4 Powerbook, OS
10.4.2, for only 6 months. He is writing a technical textbook,
composing it in LaTeX as he goes along. He needs to be able to
import images and mathematical formulas from Word documents. He
knows there is Word-to-TeX software for pcs, but is there any for
the Mac?
Failing that, would virtual pc be able to help, or just clutter
things up?
Any help much appreciated - I don't know enough about either
TeX or Word to be able to do a proper search.
Cheers,
Pat
Morning Pat,
LaTex documents I create these days I utilise a GUI front-end called
LyX . I use this for most of what I determine as normal word
processing stuff i.e Essays, Report, Letters and the odd books etc.
http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/Mac
This does take some effort to install although latest version very
simple once TeX is in place.
I do not know if it will suffice for your husband, but it does import
Word documents ?
The latest Apple Developer eLetter mentions this product..
LateXiT
http://ktd.club.fr/programmation/latexit.php
warning it looks as it is French only for documentation etc..?
And of course OS X being a branch of Unix it does have command line.
So, CTAN great resource for TeX, LateX and most tools should work or
be able to compile so as to work. One can even use LateX in this way
within the terminal.
word2latex
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/word2latex/
Cheers!
`Rob...
