[Newsletter] My first attempt at LaTEX...

[Micha Silver]

Tyler Mitchell wrote:

>
> On 26-Mar-07, at 5:01 PM, Sunburned Surveyor wrote:
>
>> I've completed my article in OpenOffice and I have now attempted to 
>> move it to LaTEX format.
>>
>
>
> Show of hands please - who wants to try subversion/SVN?  We have a 
> place ready to use.
>
We'll need an easy way/place to "dump" the final latex formatted 
articles. If subversion is the best for that, then why not, even though 
there probably won't be any need for the check-in/check-out feature of a 
versioning control system.
>
>>  Might we consider using ODT to transfer the text content of articles 
>> instead of LaTEX?
>> At some point on the production line we could move from ODT or even 
>> plain text to LaTEX or another format that makes the styling and 
>> graphics production easier. I'm not trying to complain, this is just 
>> a suggestion we might consider in the future...
>
> All reasonable ideas!
>
> Tyler
>
The problem with 'odt' (or any other DTP) formatting is that each author 
will choose different formatting, and editors would have to go thru and 
reformat anyway. By choosing Latex we supposedly should be able to avoid 
that.

Cheers,
Micha