<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">My experience is a little different, but it may be worth reporting.<div><br></div><div>I have transcribed two books (Freeman Dyson's "Advanced Quantum Mechanics" and Lillian Lieber's "The Einstein Theory of Relativity"). The first was, after I posted it to the arXiv, picked up by World Scientific. They are used to LaTeX and had no trouble at all making such adaptations as they wished to my LaTeX source. The second was going to be reset laboriously into Quark. The guy that was going to do it wanted USD 8 a page, which would have been ruinously expensive to the publishers. I volunteered to do whatever they wanted. It was a little time consuming but not really terrible (had to put proof marks in and learn how to do that; had to change the font for pagination, and so on.) </div><div><br></div><div>I think that the publishers of the world (whether or not they do mathematics) would save themselves a lot of time, money and grief were they to set a few of their team to learn LaTeX. I was told by my main liaison at the Lieber publishers that most typesetters he was familiar with were "terrified" of LaTeX. I find this astounding. </div><div><br></div><div>God only knows what time and money have been wasted by people wrestling with the capricious behavior of various releases of Word.</div><div><br></div><div>David Derbes</div><div>U of Chicago Laboratory Schools</div><div><br><div><div>On Jan 19, 2009, at 5:02 PM, David B. Thompson, Ph.D., P.E., D.WRE, CFM wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>On Jan 19, 2009, at 09:55, Alain Schremmer wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">The question, though, is how much "guidelining" NASA needed to provide to those who used Word.MathType. My guess is, a lot less, if any. So, why indeed should they bother with "TeXpertize in their Technical Publications office"?<br></blockquote><br><br>Interesting point, but I'd like to point out that my research team abandoned Word because it was a lot more trouble when working with multiple authors. I can't tell you how many hours I spent trying to figure out why Word would choose to reformat a segment of the report, seemingly arbitrarily, when I pasted in some text. Then I had all kinds of issues with floats.<br><br>There were so many hours spent in frustration, when my personal documents, all prepared using LaTeX, just seemed to "work." One of my colleagues was familiar with LaTeX from his graduate-school days. Another takes to anything computing like a duck to water. The other two just give me Word source and I paste the text and set the equations. Setting equations is laborious, but my frustration level is much lower.<br><br>Our experience was the opposite, but that may have more to do with the professionals involved and that we do our own work without a publishing staff. My experience might be a lot different if I was using an in-house publishing unit. (Although, I have to admit that one of our professionals has an in-house publishing unit and still prefers to roll his own! ;)<br><br>OK, but to my rock...<br><br>-=d<br><br><br>----------- Please Consult the Following Before Posting -----------<br>TeX FAQ: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq">http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq</a><br>List Reminders and Etiquette: <a href="http://email.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/">http://email.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/</a><br>List Archive: <a href="http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/">http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/</a><br>TeX on Mac OS X Website: <a href="http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/">http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/</a><br>List Info: <a href="http://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex">http://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex</a><br><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>