<div>Dear Torsten,</div>
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<div>This seems to be a pretty neat tool; could be be of much use for our situation here.</div>
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<div>Thank you for your concern and for your advice.</div>
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<div>Regards,</div>
<div>Ahmed</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 13, 2008 2:12 PM, Torsten Wagner <<a href="mailto:torsten.wagner@fh-aachen.de">torsten.wagner@fh-aachen.de</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Dear Ahmed,<br><br>I had to fiddle around a lot with TeX<-->MS Word conversion. However, it<br>is a quite painful act and most of the time you will be happy if you are<br>
able to convert the text with a minimum of text-highlighting (italic,<br>bold, superscript, etc.) I never were able to convert math-equation in<br>an editable format. Thanks M$ for not showing us how they read and<br>control there doc-format.<br>
<br>However, there might be some roundabouts which might help you out.<br>First of all there are tools which create a picture of the equation and<br>this can be placed in the MSWord document. This is for sure not editable<br>
anymore.<br><br>There is another free tool as well which is called TeXaide (Windows<br>only) [1].<br>As far as I can remember with this tool you can create equations (in a<br>GUI-style manner, good for your colleagues, bad for you), convert this<br>
to LaTeX code for yourself and in addition this tool provides<br>OLE-objects to paste the equations in programs like MS-Word. If I<br>remember correctly, at least for the Latex-Code there is a comment which<br>includes the complete OLE-string thus you can easily copy this back to<br>
the program and edit the equation. For MS-Word, OLE-Objects mostly can<br>be open and edited by double-click on the equation itself.<br><br>However, you and your colleagues are forced to use this little program.<br>And you cannot really synchronise all changes ....<br>
<br><br>Maybe this helps a bit<br><br>Greetings<br><br>Torsten<br><br>[1] <a href="http://www.dessci.com/en/products/texaide/" target="_blank">http://www.dessci.com/en/products/texaide/</a><br><br><br>Ahmed Shehada schrieb:<br>
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<div class="Wj3C7c">> Hi,<br>><br>> Just a quick question on the compatibility of TeX. I understand the<br>> primary output of the SW is in PDF or DIV format, with the possibility<br>> of getting other formats like HTML, RTF, and more. I was also told about<br>
> other tools that convert TeX to word docs, however, from what I've seen<br>> so far I wouldn't be able to edit the math formulae in MS Word.<br>><br>> I will be preparing some course notes that include many Math equations,<br>
> so I wanted to use TeX for it's easy of dealing with equations but at<br>> the same time make the notes available in (editable) MS Word format for<br>> my colleages who would like to review/edit these notes but do not use TeX.<br>
><br>> Your help is appreciated.<br>><br>> Ahmed<br>><br>><br></div></div>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>
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