LaTeX v Word, useful LaTeX links


There was some discussion on the lyx-users mailing list lately that I thought was useful.

How to spot a word-processed book: http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg55654.html
Why some publishers insist on using MS Word instead of LaTeX: http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg55658.html
Why Springer-Verlag DOES use LaTeX: http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg55660.html
Links to open-source software that permit editorial mark-up on .ps files (I want to try these out!):
original note: http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg55681.html
flpsed: http://www.ecademix.com/JohannesHofmann/flpsed.html
psdiff: http://www.intermemory.org/pny/software/psdiff/main.html

Another discussion of Word features missing in LaTeX (primarily language checking, changes tracking): http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg55679.html


Making LaTeX Work A book published by O'Reilly, a company that is discussed in some of the links above as not supportive of LaTeX.

Posted: Thu - May 10, 2007 at 08:45 AM           | |

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