> I write all my texts in latex, use JabRef/bibtex to manage references,
> subversion to keep track of things and to collaborate with coauthors,
> and -- if I need to submit to a journal misguided enough only to accept
> word, latex2rtf.

My wife works in a field where most journals want Word files. So I thought
I'd try and sell her on LaTeX + some conversion (latex2rtf for example), but
it turns out it's no good for her: even though she's the sole author, she
always sends her articles for feedback/corrections to friends who also want
Word format and then do their modification in-place and send back a Word
file (with changes marked as such), so she could start with a LaTeX file ,
but as soon as the text is ready enough to send to friends, she needs to
convert to Word and then needs to keep working in OOs to integrate the
comments/fixes etc... so she may as well use OOo all the way.


Stefan


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On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 01:30:15AM +0200, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > I write all my texts in latex, use JabRef/bibtex to manage references,
> > subversion to keep track of things and to collaborate with coauthors,
> > and -- if I need to submit to a journal misguided enough only to accept
> > word, latex2rtf.
>
> My wife works in a field where most journals want Word files. So I thought
> I'd try and sell her on LaTeX + some conversion (latex2rtf for example), but
> it turns out it's no good for her: even though she's the sole author, she
> always sends her articles for feedback/corrections to friends who also want
> Word format and then do their modification in-place and send back a Word
> file (with changes marked as such), so she could start with a LaTeX file ,
> but as soon as the text is ready enough to send to friends, she needs to
> convert to Word and then needs to keep working in OOs to integrate the
> comments/fixes etc... so she may as well use OOo all the way.
>
If she had a private wiki (password protected), she could post the
article there, invite folks to edit it with user accounts, track changes
and comments, then IIRC there may tools to translate wiki-markup into
various formats like tex or something more friendly that could be sent
to the journal.

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