Re: LaTeX plug-in for Word

> Van: Christophe Grandsire
>
> Hey Maarten!
>
> Remember what you said about you shutting up if I find a plugin
> for Word to save in LaTeX format? Check http://www.word2tex.com/ :))).
Well, I am happy about it. I will check it out and see if it doesn't throw
overboard all my precious Word layout. Btw, on what you said in a previous
post: the WYSIWYG part of Word is exactly why I prefer it over LaTeX. I
_want_ to worry about the layout, and LaTeX works a bit too linearly for me.
I study Theoretical Astrophysics here in Utrecht, and most of the lectrue
notes for my various classes have been made in (La)TeX. Teh result: they all
have the same, dull layout, which is soooo unappealing, that I must force
myself to read it. But I must admit that I never made any effort into
learning to work with LaTeX, since I never came across a good WYSIWYG
editor. Since I am very visual in my work, I need a WYSIWYG editor, since i
judge all my layout by sight.

> So I'm glad to say that I can now accept Word format too :)). So count now
> LaTeX, RTF and Word. I'm still looking for some HTML-to-LaTeX that
wouldn't be
> a Perl script :)) (though if I can't find one I'll do with what already
> exists :)) ).
Well, since you wanted to print the final work as PDF, can't we just submit
PDF directly? You wouldn't have to edit anything, just add the PDF pages to
the journal...

Maarten

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