Wonderful Dave, except for users who don't have or don't want to have or can't have Word installed in their computers. Tex2word and word2tex only work within Word, so it's not really a good solution for most of us.
As for myself, after years of using Word and hating the "bugs" that change the document from computer to computer, I decided to give LyX/LaTeX a try using my wife as the guinea pig. She was writing a fairly large article with lots of references. I decided Word was not the way to go, so I installed LyX/LaTeX on her Mac and after the usual growing pains, everything went just smooth. So, I decided to use it for my own work, with is mostly statistics and fuzzy logics articles. I instantly fell in love with the formula typing method, and the onscreen and pdf rendering. Now my problem is that my tutor only uses Word. He doesn't want to expend his time "learning" LyX, even thou there's really nothing to learn (I'll do all the LaTeX job and he'll only do some writing). So, our collaborative work has to be interchangeable. The format is not really the problem, but the content, specially the formulas. So I've been trying latex2rtf and the PDF comment capacity to ease our pain. On 5/15/07, David A. Case <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mon, May 14, 2007, Steve Litt wrote: > > But hard as I rack my brains, I can't think of a reason to start a project in > LyX, and THEN convert it to MS Word. > As others have said, one doesn't always know where a manuscript will end up when you start writing. Or you may be working with a collaborator who insists on using Word. And so on. For what it is worth, I have had *much* better luck converting Latex to Word using tex2word (http://www.chikrii.com/) than with latex2rtf, html conversion, and so on. Of course, this is neither free nor open-source, but (for me) the time I save going this route is worth the expense. ...dave case
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