From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 18 6:46:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ness.aae.uiuc.edu (ness.aae.uiuc.edu [128.174.132.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F23937B41C for ; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 06:46:23 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dmmcf@localhost) by ness.aae.uiuc.edu (8.11.4/8.11.4) id g1IEqcl23290; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 08:52:38 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dmmcf@uiuc.edu) X-Authentication-Warning: ness.aae.uiuc.edu: dmmcf set sender to dmmcf@uiuc.edu using -f To: Wayne Pascoe Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Advice sought re MS Office compatibility References: <15472.44937.241831.56766@guru.mired.org> From: dmmcf@uiuc.edu (D. Michael McFarland) Date: 18 Feb 2002 08:52:38 -0600 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <86y9hqkfk9.fsf@ness.aae.uiuc.edu> Lines: 22 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Wayne Pascoe writes: > As a business user, I have had to get a separate machine just to run > MS Office. For better or worse, there are plenty of machines around here that run MS Windows and Office, and I have occasionally turned out some stand-alone documents using them. (More accurately, I've reluctantly put some poor student to work duplicating in Word a perfectly serviceable TeX document.) The problem is, most of what I write is full of equations, figures and tables--stuff that can't readily be transferred between applications. Once a paper on Subject X exists in Word, there's a lot of pressure to borrow from it for the next paper rather than starting over in TeX. OK, I've sounded off enough about this. Thanks for listening. I plan to go ahead using TeX and greet requests for conversion with dead-pan claims that it can't be done. After all, it works for the Word guys. Best regards, Michael To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message