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Re: getting out of LaTeX

Subject: Re: getting out of LaTeX
From: Ruud Harmsen
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 10:43:45 +0200
Newsgroups: sci.lang
30 Aug 2006 15:52:09 -0700: "Peter T. Daniels"
<grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx>: in sci.lang:

>> >Does Word claim to be able to interpret LaTeX formatting programming?
>>
>> Does it need to? Any text editor, including Word, can be used to edit
>> text.
>
>But, as you-all inform me, much of the "text" gotten from LaTeX will be
>control codes and other such programming. Do you now expect any random
>reader to be able to deal with all that junk cluttering up their text?

ANY reader? No, the technically competent and skilled translator.

But then of course, a better solution would be to use a tool that
hides and protects the codes, as DejaVu does with HTML etc. I don't
think it has a LaTex filter, though. 


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