Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)
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Steve Lamb wrote:
> Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
> OOo -> Save As .doc
> LaTex -> Export to HTML, find an HTML to .doc converter, hope all the
> formatting goes through (which it won't).
No: LaTeX -> Export to HTML; open html in OOo -> Save as .doc.
One additional step.
> That is not simple, that is not efficient and that is not reasonable.
>
>> (Unfortunately the way from word to LaTeX is not nearly that efficient
>> if not impossible.)
>
> Good thing I'm not using Word then, a point that most people gloss over.
The last time I tried, an export from OOo to latex didn't work for me.
Same sad story here.
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>> No. The reason for suggesting WYSIWYG editors was that you said you are
>> not comfortable with other editors.
>
> I never said that, either. I said that for this purpose I wish to think
> about it visually, not conceptually. My vim-fu is quite strong, thanks.
So you could just use a bit of key mapping to solve your problem of
typing too much \textit{}.
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