From owner-metabolic-reg@net.bio.net Tue Sep 21 23:00:00 1993 Path: biosci!daresbury!doc.ic.ac.uk!pipex!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!usenet.ucs.indiana.edu!sunflower.bio.indiana.edu!gilbertd From: gilbertd@sunflower.bio.indiana.edu (Don Gilbert) Newsgroups: bionet.metabolic-reg Subject: Re: TeX/LaTeX and the FAQ Message-ID: Date: 22 Sep 93 15:14:29 GMT References: Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Biology, Indiana University - Bloomington Lines: 31 Nntp-Posting-Host: sunflower.bio.indiana.edu >In article eang62@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 robert.aarts@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 -- -- d.gilbert--biocomputing--indiana u--bloomington--gilbertd@bio.indiana.edu .