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[Nachiketa Sahoo <address@hidden>]

Texmacs is very useful for quick n' dirty reports too, sorta thing
people would not use latex, rather fall back to word. I prefer texmacs
for all my homework assignment because of aesthetic reasons. The
output is superior by a huge margin.

Thanks to TexMacs team for all the good work.
Best 
-N


On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 13:32:47 -0600, Mark Arrasmith
<address@hidden> wrote:
> 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
>