Sven Schreiber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I don't think this is a good idea. If you are supposed to provide MS >> Word format you should use MS Word or at least OOo for writing your >> paper. The point is that the TeX community has spent too little effort >> on converters.
> "That's a bold statement." (To quote a popular movie, IIRC.) Seriously, > although it's correct that especially between Latex and the Open Doc > Format better converters are needed, I don't think your advice is wise, > especially for people who are familiar and productive with Lyx. Btw, > what advice did you give before OOo existed? Everybody should buy (or > crack) msword? I gave the same advice earlier. It doesn't matter whether you use a wordprocessor other than MS Word or LaTeX directly or LyX. It's all the same: If you know you are required to provide a DOC file for submission to a journal then use Word and produce a DOC file of your paper. Even OOo is second choice because it is not the original. Everything else amounts to Cervantes' fight against wind-mills... Converting LaTeX to DOC is a nice idea and tex4ht certainly is a great tool. But converting is always second choice to the original. I think we have to say this to everyone clearly who is interested in writing in LaTeX, but who already knows that he finally has to provide a DOC file to someone else. The main problem in scientific environments is that both LaTeX and HTML are long-term archiving formats which DOC clearly isn't. So most information stored in DOC format will vanish some day. But that's not the point publishing houses have taken up so far... Regards, Jürgen.
