Date: 18 Feb 2002 08:52:38 -0600 From: dmmcf@uiuc.edu (D. Michael McFarland) To: Wayne Pascoe <freebsd@molemanarmy.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Advice sought re MS Office compatibility Message-ID: <86y9hqkfk9.fsf@ness.aae.uiuc.edu> In-Reply-To: <m2it8vtbyh.fsf@set.ehsrealtime.com> References: <15472.44937.241831.56766@guru.mired.org> <m2it8vtbyh.fsf@set.ehsrealtime.com>
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Wayne Pascoe <freebsd@molemanarmy.com> 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
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