[geeks] Latex to word

[dave at cca.org]

avriettea at speakeasy.net writes:

>On Thursday, April 4, 2002, at 03:52 PM, Joshua D Boyd wrote:

>> A professor is now requiring that we submit a paper to him in word 
>> format. A
>> paper that I already wrote (including pictures, graphs, etc) in LaTeX.

>that is draconian. fight the power.

Damn straight.

>i dont own a single copy of word. i do in fact have vi, and i can write 
>all kinds of formats, he is just requiring you use his editor. thats 
>ridiculous. a professor of a friend of mine actually required her 
>students write their programming projects in emacs. i called her on it 
>and told her it was fascist and that she should make no such requirement.

>your professor can view html, text, rtf, and many other kinds of 
>documents. suggest to him that he instead bend a little.

That's a good point.

How about PDF? ghostscript's ps2pdf utility is good, if you're
not hotdogging.

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