[Journal] trouble figuring out tex conversion, article 166
Scott Mitchell
smitch at me.com
Wed Feb 24 14:18:32 EST 2010
Ok, on my first attempt at converting someone else's work in to tex
for the journal, I'm having trouble.
I've tried multiple ways, and always I get stuck on the big table that
is in this article.
So I've committed files to svn including the original Word documents,
and am hoping someone can help me out.
volume_6/en-us/events/OrshovenWawer_summercourse/166-292-1-SP_rw.doc
is the last version of the .doc file that I exchanged with the authors.
volume_6/en-us/events/OrshovenWawer_summercourse/
166-292-2_tableOnly.doc is just the table, with a bit of clean-up
already applied.
There are a couple versions of my attempts at .tex conversion in
there, too. I have many more, but that would just be a mess. I have
tried:
- creating the table by manually wrapping simple table formatting
codes around the raw text (lead to a big mess, I think because perhaps
I can't use an itemized list inside a table???)
- creating the table from scratch, using LyX (resulting in an almost
empty table when rendered)
- translating the .doc into .tex using open office (resulting in a
LOT of error messages from pdflatex, no pdf created)
- doing the above, and then "cleaning" out all the extra .tex
formatting that I didn't think was necessary (leading to a different
nonsense table).
I would love input / hand-holding to get this accomplished. If
someone could even create just the table for me (or tell me how), I
can fill in the other stuff.
Thanks,
Scott
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