Date: 18 Feb 2002 20:34:32 -0600 From: dmmcf@uiuc.edu (D. Michael McFarland) To: Jud <jud@operamail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Advice sought re MS Office compatibility Message-ID: <86d6z2yzbb.fsf@ness.aae.uiuc.edu> In-Reply-To: <PVSGAWQVNKNMRJF654DCUPC9GA06.3c71a36a@sparky> References: <PVSGAWQVNKNMRJF654DCUPC9GA06.3c71a36a@sparky>
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Jud <jud@operamail.com> writes: > Just idly thinking that HTML is about as OS-independent a language as > there is, and there are some not-bad TeX-to-HTML converters (at least > one I know of particularly for equation-heavy material). I maintain my handful of web pages with LaTeX2HTML. Works like a charm. > So your office > buddies can view your papers in their browsers of choice, or - > MWAHAHAHA! - use MS Word's "ability" to render HTML. (I don't > know if PowerPoint is supposed to be able to do something similar.) Don't think I haven't tried this scheme. It works, after a fashion, but not well enough to let us interchange camera-ready documents. For that matter, Word itself isn't really up to the task; its equation and figure formatting seems to be very fragile, among other things. The only app that comes close to satisfying everyone is FrameMaker, but it appears Adobe is going to let that product die, at least on the Mac. By the way, thanks for the "MWAHAHAHA!". I needed a chuckle to help restore my perspective about this issue. 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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