Re: Couple of naive questions
--- Brett Viren <bv@bnl.gov> wrote:
> Francesco Pietra <chiendarret@yahoo.com> writes:
>
> > My first (naive) question is: am I too much ahead
> (in
> > publishing tools) or are the editors in organic
> > chemistry so much behind (in publishing tools)?
>
> Their use of DOC and yours of OpenOffice are
> certainly ahead time-wise
> but are both far behind tech- and ease-of-use-wise
> (imo).
>
> > At any event, my second (naive) question is: what
> > about editors in other areas?
>
> In High Energy Physics, LaTeX for the document
Yes, writing mathematical formulas with Oo is
masochistic. This about LaTex is an invitation I take
to see if I can deal organic chemistry/natural
products with it. Thank you
francesco pietra
and
> EPS (which provides
> for bitmapped and JPEG images as well) for figures
> is, thankfully, the
> standard. At least for scientific publications and
> preprints.
> Brushing up with the Gov't or the admin side of the
> house typically
> involves de-evolving to DOCs.
>
>
> The best laugh I get is receiving an email
> attachement of a multi
> MByte screen shot of a Word window in BMP format
> showing a paragraph
> of plain text.
>
> Back to work,
> -Brett.
>
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