From jay.kominek@colorado.edu Sat Mar 24 19:51:57 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: kominek@ucsub.colorado.edu X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_4); 25 Mar 2001 03:51:57 -0000 Received: (qmail 20673 invoked from network); 25 Mar 2001 03:51:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 25 Mar 2001 03:51:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ucsub.colorado.edu) (128.138.129.12) by mta1 with SMTP; 25 Mar 2001 03:51:56 -0000 Received: from ucsub.colorado.edu (kominek@ucsub.colorado.edu [128.138.129.12]) by ucsub.colorado.edu (8.10.0/8.10.0/ITS-5.0/standard) with ESMTP id f2P3pul17945 for ; Sat, 24 Mar 2001 20:51:56 -0700 (MST) Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 20:51:56 -0700 (MST) To: Subject: Re: [lojban] Marketing lojban In-Reply-To: <01032420331100.03095@neo.fen.bilkent.edu.tr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Jay Kominek On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Robin Turner wrote: > Assuming you're using a UNIX-type OS, download the latest version of wv, > which converts MS Word documents to reasonable LaTeX (and can be used as a > LyX plugin). Ergh. Now I know. Well, I think I'll just stick with what I'm doing because I'm planning on trying to do a _very_ structural description of the textbook. (I didn't try running wv, but it looks like it has two versions, one that produces _visually_ good output, and another which tries to produce code good output. I'm aiming for both.) > And those of us outside the Windoze world don't like Word documents, even if > we have something that can read them ;-) I suggest we adopt PDF for long > documents on the site, and stick to HTML for shorter stuff. PDF is not ideal > by any means, but at least it's cross-platform. LaTeX is further a good idea because PDFs and a variety of other widely viewable electronic formats can be produced from it. (And it looks so classy when you print it out!) I was planning on, after I get the current content of the textbook looking decent as LaTeX output, to make available the LaTeX source, as well as DVI, PostScript, PDF and HTML. (Then I hope to make regular updates to it, improving the LaTeX and the content. Unless someone else is interested in doing that at this stage, then I think I'll stick to LaTeX :) - Jay Kominek Waiting Is.