[OS X TeX] Hyperlink failure with TeXShop and Preview

[Roussanka Loukanova]

Thanks: your answer is full with information that I have needed, and I am 
sure, other people on the list would appreciate it too. (Reading the OS X 
TeX emails has become part of my daily routines.) BTW, are there free 
versions of MS Word, Excel, Office? Free or payed, which version is ok on 
Macs? (There are so non-positive writings about Vista...) I myself have 
been avoiding the administrative papers you describe, but this can't 
last forever.

Roussanka

On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, Bruno Voisin wrote:

> Le 22 févr. 07 à 17:35, Roussanka Loukanova a écrit :
>
>> BTW, what do you use Microsoft and Office for: perhaps they are good for 
>> some specific tasks? I've been thinking to try to solicit money from the 
>> dept for iWorks, but am reluctant before 10.5, hoping that 10.5 would come 
>> bundled with something, at least equivalent, if not better.
>
> - Word: to collaborate writing research proposals; to read notes received 
> from admin sources, which often come as .doc files; to complete forms, which 
> also often come as .doc files. Trying to educate the senders so that they use 
> PDF or ODF formats is just not worth the effort currently. Hopefully things 
> will change, but for the moment admin people (at least in my experience) seem 
> to think objecting to MS Office documents just signals you're either pedantic 
> or have too much free time in your hands.
>
> - Excel: to read and fill in spreadsheets, also coming from admin sources.
>
> - PowerPoint: to collaborate preparing presentations, for example the 
> presentation of my research group for the four-year assessment of my 
> department. Plus, most of the time conferences request Powerpoint format, 
> only accepting PDF as second-best option.
>
> OpenOffice.org is OK for working on your own, but generally it fails when 
> dealing with Office files coming from outside. For example, .doc files 
> containing tables of any reasonable complexity generally come out wrong in 
> OOo, page breaks are changed, and so forth. Plus, I won't consider using OOo 
> myself until a native Aqua version is available (which is supposed to come 
> out soon).
>
> I do use iWork, especially Keynote, but:
>
> - Keynote presentations are generally not accepted at conferences (Maarten 
> Sneep recently said the APS accepts them IIRC, but that's an exception). You 
> need to prepare a PDF or PowerPoint version.
>
> - Pages is good for short notes with emphasis on presentation, not structure. 
> It's no good currently for structured documents, with several imbricated 
> section levels (chapters, sections, subsections, etc.). You cannot customize 
> really the presentation or content of the table of contents; you cannot 
> define different formats for different sections (such as section 1 in 
> portrait mode, section 2 in landscape mode, etc.); and so forth. Plus, in my 
> experience Pages has *many* bugs.
>
> Bruno
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