On Aug 2, 5:10 pm, Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Which brings me to my question: do any of you have any experience
> using wine or crossover office with MSWord?
Yes. That's what crossover is for. Purchasing a copy of
crossover will support the development of wine.
> in this case Open
On 2007-08-03, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I don't suppose that, while it has to be in .doc format, it doesn't have
> to be editable? Could you make each page an .eps (or other graphic
> image) and plonk it down on a page in OO and then save it in .doc? It
> would then _loo
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 08:44:31PM +, Tyler Smith wrote:
>
> I am aware that the problem lies entirely in the inconsistent and
> undocumented .doc format. And I know that rtf suffers from many of the
> same deficiencies. And I know that pdf is far preferable for most
> purposes. For reasons th
Thank you everyone for your comments.
I am aware that the problem lies entirely in the inconsistent and
undocumented .doc format. And I know that rtf suffers from many of the
same deficiencies. And I know that pdf is far preferable for most
purposes. For reasons that are beyond my control I am re
Tyler Smith wrote:
> 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
> f
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 11:41:54PM +, Tyler Smith wrote:
> over in OpenOffice only to find that when the same document is opened
> in Word the formatting is screwed up.
And you are, of course, aware that .doc format is NOT consistent (and it
was never meant to be). If you need to have the sa
Tyler Smith wrote:
> Which brings me to my question: do any of you have any experience
> using wine or crossover office with MSWord? Does it work?
The Codeweavers CrossOver application is excellent. I do not in any
way want to sound like an advocate for the MS office suite since it is
the source
* Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070802 20:42]:
> Hi,
>
> I am getting really frustrated with exchanging documents with
> colleagues who only use Word. I am quite happy now working with LaTeX
> Which brings me to my question: do any of you have any experience
> using wine or crossover office wit
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 11:41:54PM +, Tyler Smith wrote:
> 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 impro
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 11:41:54PM +, Tyler Smith wrote:
> 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 impr
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 r
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