- From: Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>
- To: Kris Kuhlman <address@hidden>
- Cc: <address@hidden>, <address@hidden>
- Subject: Re: [TeXmacs] TeXmacs to Word (into FAQ?)
- Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 19:09:48 +0100 (CET)
Thank you Mark and Kris for writing down your experiences.
Andreas: what about creating a FAQ entry for this?
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On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Kris Kuhlman wrote:
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Mark Arrasmith wrote:
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>Don't know if this was answered after the long discussion about TeXmacs vs
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>LaTeX vs MS Word.
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I exported the TeXmacs file to LaTeX, then I simplified some of the
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output, and converted it using latex2rtf (which is quite free) and it
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seems to work fine. My advisor didn't complain about it, he said it
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worked fine for him.
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The latex2rtf converter complained about many of the things TeXmacs did;
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colors for example. When I am writing, I will often change the color of
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some text, so I remember to go back and check it, etc. when I do check
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it, I change it back to black, but there were color definitions (with
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nothing in them) left in the body of the LaTeX output. After vacuuming
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out this extra stuff (the converter complained about colors it couldn't
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handle), and I changed the bullets and numbered lists over to vanilla
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LaTeX ones, then no more complaints from the converter (no graphics).
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After the dialog which went back & forth regarding the conversion from
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TeXmacs to OpenOffice, part of me thought I should look for another
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editor. I like TeXmacs, because it looks great (but LaTeX does too), and
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it is easy to type equations. It advertises that it handles text editing
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like emacs, but text navigation in TeXmacs isn't enough like emacs.
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Some of the navigation features that I have become accustomed to are
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missing: nav by word, delete by word, transpose letters & words, and the
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worst... cursor movement where a line wraps (when I first discovered
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this I seriously thought this was a misconfigured keyboard or something,
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I think it is a big pain). I saw in another discussion that improving
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cursor movement was on the list of things to do, I think this is very
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important.
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I think TeXmacs is great, and want to keep using it. I am also the only
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person in my department that uses it; I have tried showing it to other
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people (who are impressed by the looks of output), but after they
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install it they (in windows), they stopped using it because just moving
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around in it, to do simple editing is non-standard and non-intuitive.
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Not to say that TeXmacs should handle like MS-Word (shudder).
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If there is some way to customize TeXmacs to make it do some of these
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navigational things, I would try, but from what I have read it doesn't
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appear to be.
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Kris
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