Re: Thesis/Dissertation authoring application
On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 09:55:33 -0400 (EDT)
Andrew Perrin <clists@perrin.socsci.unc.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Dave Ewart wrote:
>
> > On Monday, 25.04.2005 at 14:12 +0200, Bruno Hertz wrote:
> >
> > > Anyway, you made a good remark. If not Tex, at least Postscript should
> > > be accepted by such journals, and that can be produced from Tex input.
> >
> > If they want to change the layout and style of what you've written, then
> > they'll probably prefer the source, rather than PS ...
> >
>
> Exactly. They're happy with PS/PDF for the submission/review phase, but
> when it comes to sending the final product they want something they can
> edit. And that means Word/RTF unless they have a smart production person
> who knows *TeX.
>
> > > I can't imagine what else they would want. E.g. is there really any
> > > journal out there accepting submissions in MS Word or Rtf format only?
> >
> > Sadly, most journals view anything other than MS Word as alien. I've
> > dealt with many (mainly medical) journals and normally a request to send
> > TeX source is met with "WTF is 'tech'?" ... :-/
> >
>
> Same here - most sociology journals will take only Word/RTF, or plain text
> in a pinch. I was pleasantly surprised with _Political Psychology_, which
> did a good job with my LaTeX source.
>
Have a look at tex2rtf, it can't convert everything but does a decent job on
what it can.
Not sure at what tex to text filters there are but at least lyx can export
formatted text rather nicely.
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