I've been lurking on this thread...Such a script would be extremely handy, if you were willing to share!<br>Most
journals in my field don't know TeX exists, and the path to
enlightenment is slow...I'm dealing with musical examples rather than
formulae, which work beautifully either directly in TeX or with
Lilypond. To my knowledge, MS Word has no way of dealing with them
beyond importing graphics. Is there a polite way to tell editors that
they are making their OWN lives more difficult, let alone those of
contributors?<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/22/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Joel Salomon</b> <<a href="mailto:joelcsalomon@gmail.com">joelcsalomon@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 11/21/06, peralta <<a href="mailto:peralta@cc.usu.edu">peralta@cc.usu.edu</a>> wrote:<br>> I am about to begin writing a book for a publisher. The publisher says they<br>> prefer to receive the text via MS Word files.
<br><br>Rather than PDF?<br><br>> I will have many equations, and was considering using LaTeX, which I have<br>> downloaded and explored. From the FAQs, I believe there is no conversion<br>> program available that can convert complicated documents created on LaTeX
<br>> into MS Word. Is that correct? If so, I will not use LaTeX.<br><br>If you can possibly avoid MS Office's equation editor, do so; it's<br>unspeakably awful. I have a little script I wrote for use with<br>pstricks that takes a minimal TeX file --- I had one pstricks image,
<br>but you can put a single equation in instead --- and produces an<br>embeddable pdf. Might that script be useful to you, so you can submit<br>the document in Word, but write equations in a sane environment?<br><br>--Joel
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