[OS X TeX] TeX and the wild wild world out there

[Victor Ivrii]

On 11/29/06, Bruno Voisin <bvoisin at mac.com> wrote:
> Le 29 nov. 06 à 20:23, Victor Ivrii a écrit :
>
> > If someone sends by email  the text in M$W despite warning that it is
> > not accepted format, attachments goes to trash without reading and the
> > author is treated like a spammer.
>
> Then it must be hard to write research proposals, in case you have to
> do that, cos' fairly often the documents to be filled in are .doc
> files. And even when they aren't, your co-proposers often ask them to
> be converted to .doc files. (And OpenOffice is generally not an
> option, as the documents often contain tables and I've very rarely
> seen tables written in Word come out OK in OpenOffice's Writer.)
>
> I do not like this situation, and I would prefer to work with TeX
> files and have no supplier tie-in, but that's the world we live in.
>
> And there are, of course, all the notes from the various agencies my
> research lab depends on (two universities and a research centre), of
> local government authorities, etc., which generally are distributed
> in the form of .doc email attachments.
>
> Actually the situation is getting better than this, in that more and
> more often .pdf files are used where .doc files would have been used
> exclusively a few years ago. But then, in case you need to edit to
> edit these .pdf files (imagine, for example, a collaborative research
> proposal), then you need to purchase the commercial Acrobat Pro, and
> you're back to where you started from.


This is not the case in mathematics.


>
> Bruno Voisin
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