Hi, I am getting really frustrated with exchanging documents with colleagues who only use Word. I am quite happy now working with LaTeX and BibTex, but in the course of my work I have to deal with WYSIWYG documents where formating is critical. latex2rtf is mostly adequate for this purpose, but I run into problems when I check the document over in OpenOffice only to find that when the same document is opened in Word the formatting is screwed up.
I do support the Free Software ideal, and to this end I have started applying my humble C coding skills to bug fixes and adding features to latex2rtf, and I try and advocate for open formats whenever appropriate. That doesn't address my immediate problem of annoying people who I can't afford to annoy at this point in my career with sloppily-formatted documents. Which brings me to my question: do any of you have any experience using wine or crossover office with MSWord? Does it work? If it is possible to produce true, well-formatted .doc files this way then it will definitely be an improvement over hunting down a computer running Word under MSWindows to check my submissions. But it needs to be completely identical to regular Word - if I have to check the crossover/wine Word version with native Word I won't have saved any time. Is this possible? Any other suggestions regarding producing true .doc formats without resorting to installing Windows would be welcome, but in this case OpenOffice is definitely not good enough. It's great, of course, but not when it comes to exchanging .doc files with critical formatting intact. Thanks, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
