[OS X TeX] LaTeX -> Word?

[Adrian Heathcote]

>

Hi Ross


> Simply send the LaTeX-built PDF and tell the editors
> to do the conversion for themselves
>  --- after all, that kind of thing was traditionally
> part of their job, not the author's.

Ha!! Good luck trying to tell any editor that it is part of their job  
to convert your article. The response in every case would be the same:  
they'd reject your article instantly.

It's a buyer's market and editors are the buyers. I've never known one  
that wasn't flush with the power that comes from that.

Still---if the implication is that things are different in the maths  
world then that's good to know. But then surely they all insist (v.  
reasonably) on latex submissions only…
>
> Typesetting technology has allowed authors to do more
> of the layout work, because they can better handle their
> own content. But here we are talking about complete
> articles that have been typeset well. The editor should
> be able to adjust page-sizes, headers, numbering etc.
> without touching the specialised content.
>
>
> Of course this is only applicable if the tools do
> indeed produce an acceptable translation.
>
>
> Cheers
>
> 	Ross
>
>
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> rene
>>
>>
>>
>> At 8:28 AM +1000 4/23/04, Ross Moore wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Here's a Windows program that purports to do a good job of  PDF -->  
>>> Word.
>>> It costs, but not a lot, and there's a free demo. So it would be  
>>> interesting
>>> to see what kind of a result it produces from a mathematical  
>>> pdf-LaTeX job.
>>> (It's unlikely to give editable equations as such, but the result  
>>> may still
>>> be useable for small edits.)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> 	Ross
>>>
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