mailing-list for TeXmacs Users

[Mark Arrasmith <address@hidden>]

Don't know if this was answered after the long discussion about TeXmacs vs 
LaTeX vs MS Word.  Anyway, I had to move a LONG paper from Word to and from 
LaTeX several times (Engineering dept would only use Word and the Math 
Professor was using LaTeX).

Step One. 
At first don't do anything fancy, including not inserting your images.  Just 
stick to the important stuff for your document until you are close to wanting 
it published.  Then worry about inserting images, etc.

Step Two.
Get TeX2Word / Word2TeX ( http://www.word2tex.com ) or get
texport ( http://www.ktalk.com/ ) for the Word user.  Both require Design 
Science MathType and a couple of hundred dollars.

Step Three.
When using TeXmacs just import / export the LaTeX before shipping it to the 
Word user.

Overall LaTeX is a good intermediate format for moving around.  But, it does 
require that the MS Word people spend some money.  In a department you can 
scrape together $500, get one license, and setup a workstation for the 
express purpose of moving those files around.

Anyway, it worked for me.

I don't publish papers myself, so I use TeXmacs for my exams and lecture 
notes.  We have had graduate students type up their PhD papers with TeXmacs, 
export to LaTeX, and then put in the finishing touches for publishing using 
kile.  And lots of our graduate students type up their stats homework with 
TeXmacs + R.

- mark