I am willing to convert a rich text format (.doc, .docx, .odt, .rtf, etc.) into the desired .tex file, if it is needed. :)
Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 15, 2013, at 8:01 PM, "Patrick Dickey" <pdickeyb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > In the past, the team gave authors a choice between working with > the .tex files, or submitting their text in Google Docs format. That was > either for the Precise or both the Precise and Quantal editions, but > they didn't do it in the Raring edition. It was too much work for the > editors to go through and create the LaTeX for anything that needed it > (from the Google Docs files). > > I don't remember too many issues from Authors or Editors in working with > the LaTeX files this time around (but I may have missed them). > > Also Gummi doesn't look like it's very active. The last release was in > October, 2012, and the last revision in the files was in March, 2013. If > you look at the roadmap, everything is late. I agree it looks like a > lot of work to get it going for the manual (especially since we'd have > to fix the open issues also). > > Of course, letting the developer know that we might be interested in > using his program might be the kick in the pants that he needs to fix > the open issues. As always, this is just my. .02 worth. > > Have a great weekend.:) > Patrick. > >> On Sat, 2013-06-15 at 11:35 -0700, Jonathan Marsden wrote: >>> On 06/15/2013 11:27 AM, Yorvyk wrote: >>> >>> I notice that in the dim and distant past there was a blueprint item >>> [1] to see if gummi could be made to work with UMP. I take it this >>> went no where. If this is the case, are there any programmers who'd >>> like to prod it to see if it could be made to work. >> >> That seems like a lot of work, compared to just having people use any >> decent text editor that they are already familiar with. Do we have >> significant numbers of authors and editors who are being scared away by >> the need to directly work with LaTeX source? >> >> Jonathan >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual >> Post to : ubuntu-manual@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual > Post to : ubuntu-manual@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual Post to : ubuntu-manual@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
