Re: Thesis/Dissertation authoring application
On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 10:16:10 +0200
Piotr Kopszak <kopszak@mnw.art.pl> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 05:14:30PM +0100, Dave Ewart wrote:
> > On Monday, 25.04.2005 at 17:40 +0200, Bruno Hertz wrote:
> >
> > > Dave Ewart <davee@sungate.co.uk> writes:
> > >
> > > > 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'?" ... :-/
> > >
> > > Oh dear, I actually didn't know even scientific publishing was
> > > infested by that crap such widely. Sincere condolences from my part.
> > > Maybe you actually should switch to Math, one of the apparently few
> > > save havens of proper reason ? :)
> >
> > Well, we're in the 'medical statistics' area and some of the more
> > stats-y journals positively embrace LaTeX, which is good; they are
> > hugely outweighed by the others though.
> >
> > /me goes off at a tangent
> >
> > Thing is, given the typographical errors which appear in first proofs
> > from the "Send us Word only" journals, it is clear that they *re-type*
> > the content by hand. And yet our researchers spend hours formatting
> > their document etc. - which I've told them on numerous occasions is
> > completely pointless ... :-)
> >
> > Dave.
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> There's nothing you can do in that case, except sending your texts to
> other journals I guess. As one may expect Art History is another area
> affected by the "MS Word" problem. I now use XML for whatever I
> write. It took me some time to learn how to transform it but that
> saves lot of time now. I then can make two transformations from the
> source: XML --> PDF using XSLT and ConTeXt, and XML --> HTML using
> XSLT. I then go to another computer and open HTML version in Word,
> save it and send to those publishers who want "Word only". This may
> seem like an overkill but it does help you after couple of years, ity
> certainly helped me. I think it should be a compulsory subject in the
> first year of any University syllabus.
>
There are also several latex -> html converters so the latex->html->word path
is also possible.
> Piotr
>
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