>In article <CDrB3v.59n at festival.ed.ac.uk> eang62 at castle.ed.ac.uk (Herbert Sauro) writes:
>>>>I have a suggestion that we use TeX/LaTeX to format any mathematical
>>stuff that we might put into the FAQ, any votes/comments on this? Maybe
In article <CDrEp1.HAH.2 at cs.cmu.edu> robert.aarts at vtt.fi writes:
>I would suggest that the FAQ is in PostScript format instead of (La)Tex
>and of course in addition to a plain ASCII version. PostScript is
>far more available than LaTex. There are actually people who use modern
>word processors such as Word or WordPerfect where one directly edits
>equations without having to know LaTex. The people who use LaTex most
>likely can print PostScript files in order to obtain pretty equations.
Let me suggest even another format for your needs: RTF, which is
Microsoft's Rich-Text-Format that many wordprocessors can read and edit.
Postscript is fine for printing and even display on some computers,
but it isn't editable. RTF can be read/editted/written by MS Word, WordPerfect,
Ami Pro, WriteNow and many other wordprocessors on Macs and MSDos/MSWin
computers. It still is hard to find a wordprocessor on Unix [that handles
RTF], but there are rtf2Tex(LaTex) and rtf2troff converter programs for
the unixers.
When you want to save a file as RTF from your wordprocessor, take a
look at the save options -- many wordprocessors will give you that option
to save as RTF. This is a fairly painless format to use, compared
to (La)TeX which is basicly unix-only or Postscript, which generally is
hard to display on PCs or Macs.
-- Don
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