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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Fine, understood Thomas.  I did not
      think that it was likely to be directly relevant, but nonetheless
      thought it worth mentioning that Excel and TeX can work
      synergistically together.<br>
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      <i>Philip Taylor</i><br>
      --------<br>
      Beuthe, Thomas wrote:<br>
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        <p>UNRESTRICTED / ILLIMITÉE<o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">An
            interesting suggestion, but in my case, the people writing
            the documents are all well versed in LaTeX. It’s only at the
            review stage where things start to get problematic. Although
            commenting on pdf files works, some prefer to be able to
            directly edit the original to add their corrections
            suggestions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">What
            you are describing here seems to be a good solution for the
            input stage of the document, but I’m looking to solve
            problems more at the output stage.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Good
            suggestion though! Thanks for sharing your experiences.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">It’s
            great to see some of the innovative and creative approaches
            that have been taken with LaTeX!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
            style="color:#1F497D">></span>Not a direct answer,
          Thomas, but a question/suggestion — might your non-TeXxie
          collaborators feel more comfortable working in Excel ?  If so,
          then
          <span style="color:#1F497D">></span>you might consider
          accepting Excel as input which can then be directly processed
          by TeX, as I did (for example) when producing the
          <i>Descriptive </i><i><span style="color:#1F497D">></span></i><i>Catalogue
            of Greek MSS in the Lambeth Palace Library</i>.  The entire
          process is described
          <a
href="http://hellenic-institute.uk/research/LPL/Greek-MSS/Catalogue/Eutypon/e31-a02.pdf"
            moz-do-not-send="true">
            here</a>.<br>
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