Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)
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Steve Lamb wrote:
> Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
>> True. But my personal experience includes quite a bit of work with word,
>> OOo *and* LaTeX.
>
> Happy for you. Let me know when you turn into me so your personal
> experience matches mine. I'll be happy to let you write the book for me. :P
>
>> LaTeX, especially without formulas or too complicated formatting, is
>> easily converted to many different acceptable formats: HTML, pdf, plain
>> text, etc.
>
> "Acceptable" by whom? My end goal is to get published. None of those
> formats are acceptable for that goal.
>
>> The route via HTML to OOo and .doc is straightforward for the
>> situation you describe.
>
> No, it's not. It does not retain all the formatting.
It does not retain the formatting in the sense that it retains page and
line breaks. But it does retain the structure and italics, etc. ie. all
that appears to be important in your case.
>> I didn't want to do hair splitting. I just used the example to convince
>> you that you don't require to type '\textit{}' all the times you need
>> italics.
>
> Which I never said.
Well you complained about:
> You're also ignoring that CNTL-I is a tad shorter
> than {\it}, esp. since \ is way out of the way of my normal typing habits.
>> texmacs is not emacs! See www.texmacs.org.
>
> Technically you're right. From the FAQ, first question:
>
> * is a free scientific text editor, which was both inspired by TeX and GNU Emacs.
>
> Yeahhhh, scientific text is what I am writing here. Inspired by Emacs.
> You're out of touch.
As said before, you can use it for non-scientific text just as you want.
It may be inspired by emacs, but is totally different: appearence,
usage, output format, etc. I wasn't focussing about technical
differences, it is fundamentally different.
Johannes
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