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Tak To wrote:
> Peter T. Daniels wrote:
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> > Ruud Harmsen wrote:
> >
> >>30 Aug 2006 11:13:49 -0700: "Peter T. Daniels"
> >><grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx>: in sci.lang:
> >>
> >>
> >>>>If I were that author, I would have sent Peter the LaTeX manuscript.
> >>>>Word can read ASCII/ISO-8859-1 text files, right? So, LaTeX
> >>>>manuscript are Word-readable! ;)
> >>>
> >>>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.
>
> The _input_ to LaTex is a plain text file that contains both the
> _content_ of a document as well as its _formatting_information_.
Exactly. I don't see why LSD can't understand the difference.
The author of the article has no need to see the formatting
information, and no interest in it, and it will distract from the
writing of the article.
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