Date: 18 Feb 2002 08:26:42 -0600 From: dmmcf@uiuc.edu (D. Michael McFarland) To: Don Tyson <tyson@stanfordalumni.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Advice sought re MS Office compatibility Message-ID: <867kpalvbx.fsf@ness.aae.uiuc.edu> In-Reply-To: <E16cnuP-0004fh-00@scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net> References: <E16cnuP-0004fh-00@scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net>
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Don Tyson <tyson@stanfordalumni.org> writes:
> Others on this list have suggested formatting in PDF using
> dvipdfm or ps2pdf or some other utility. Presumably that
> would work for presenting the document, but probably not if you need
> to pass it back and forth editing or changing, unless you
> send a plain text file with it.
I've tried that, and in fact it's my preferred way of interacting with
coauthors who are making only trivial changes ("print it out, scribble
on it and fax it back"). But we're all engineers in academia--control
freaks to a man, and everyone wants to get his hands on the files.
I'm coming to think my best bet is to be so productive that they never
catch up :-), which is probably what I should be doing anyway.
Thank you for your reply. I posted my original message mostly to let
off some steam, and it's good to know I'm not alone.
Cheers,
Michael
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