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From: andreatta@mail.chem.sc.edu (Dan Andreatta)
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Subject: Re: OT: Microsoft takes on history
Date: 29 May 2002 14:32:28 -0700
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Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov> wrote in message news:<ulma3orlo.fsf@gsfc.nasa.gov>...
> "Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org> writes:
> 
> some in FrameMaker. I prefer LaTeX.

Me too...

> > Don't most word processors provide some means of importing and
> > exporting file formats other than their own? (I know the copy of
> > MS-Word I have here seems to be able to do that...)
> 
> Yes, but it's never adequate. If you export RTF from Word, and import
> it into FrameMaker, you get the bold fonts and stuff, but you totally
> lose the meta-format of headers, paragraph styles, etc. Well, not
> _totally_, but you lose enough that I don't try to do it anymore.
> 
> > In other words, this seems to be a tempest in a teapot. 
> 
> nope. It's a real problem.
> 

Some time ago my wife (a chemist like me) had to send a paper to a
scientific journal, and the accepted formats were PDF or
Word98/Win2000, no other combinations Word/Win accepted... Something
is not right here...

Dan