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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Aug 26 20:48:28 -0700 2005 ------- As a non-expert user, may I add my support to Frank's plea for the urgency of adding an export filter? I am about to start writing a short philosophical monograph, and am wondering whether to use TeX to make it more publishable. But I'm not attracted to using a text-markup interface like Lyx, having got used to word processing. I want to revise using pages that are near-proofs, before shipping the MS to publishers in the form they can best use. So I agree with Frank that having a LaTeX export filter could be a strategic issue for the use of OO in the academic community. It's disappointing that although Henrik has apparently fixed the technical issues (thanks from all potential users), the inclusion of the filter in an update continues to slip, and is apparently not even planned for the 2.0 release. The export filter should be conceptually divorced from the idea of a TeX import filter, which looks to me like a mistake, and more generally of TeX emulation. TeX is by design a comprehensive typographical engine, intended to work with markup tags. Adapting a WYSIWYG word processor like OO Writer to do everything TeX can do is probably impossible and anyway pointless. Doing professional-level typography in a word processor should be avoided; it's like using the calculation function in tables within Word instead of a proper spreadsheet. A full TeX emulation would require something as elaborate and unhandy as Quark Express, which nobody (but nobody) uses for creating text. (There may of course be a case for restricted import, say of LaTeX equations.) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
