Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

[judd@wadsworth.org]

On 26 Sep, Peter Robinson wrote:

>> ...
  
> 
> If you write in latex you can always convert to RTF via latex2rtf,
> which in my experience works excellently. If needed, it is no big
> deal to convert this to word format. It is definitely worth the
> effort to learn latex.
> cheers, peter
> 
> 

     I disagree.  I use latex for some articles which are submitted to
scientific journals, but for the type of writing which Steve has
described, Oo.org is fine, with no learning curve, and he can output it
to .doc or.rtf as necessary.  If he wants to have an index, or
bibliograpy, footnotes, etc. in the book, it´s definitely worth learning
to use latex or some variant.

     If revision history, etc, is necessary or really desirable, using 
lyx and subversion, as other posters suggested, might be a good way to
go; I haven´t used lyx myself for several years, so I´m dont´t know how
easy it would be for him to use.

-Chris 

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|   Christopher Judd, Ph. D.                      judd@wadsworth.org   |
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