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[Thomas Corwin <dog1489@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am willing to convert a rich text format (.doc, .docx, .odt, .rtf, etc.) into the desired .tex file, if it is needed. :)

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> On Jun 15, 2013, at 8:01 PM, "Patrick Dickey" <pdickeybeta@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> In the past, the team gave authors a choice between working with
> the .tex files, or submitting their text in Google Docs format. That was
> either for the Precise or both the Precise and Quantal editions, but
> they didn't do it in the Raring edition. It was too much work for the
> editors to go through and create the LaTeX for anything that needed it
> (from the Google Docs files).
> 
> I don't remember too many issues from Authors or Editors in working with
> the LaTeX files this time around (but I may have missed them).
> 
> Also Gummi doesn't look like it's very active. The last release was in
> October, 2012, and the last revision in the files was in March, 2013. If
> you look at the roadmap, everything is late.  I agree it looks like a
> lot of work to get it going for the manual (especially since we'd have
> to fix the open issues also).
> 
> Of course, letting the developer know that we might be interested in
> using his program might be the kick in the pants that he needs to fix
> the open issues.  As always, this is just my. .02 worth.
> 
> Have a great weekend.:)
> Patrick.
> 
>> On Sat, 2013-06-15 at 11:35 -0700, Jonathan Marsden wrote: 
>>> On 06/15/2013 11:27 AM, Yorvyk wrote:
>>> 
>>> I notice that in the dim and distant past there was a blueprint item
>>> [1] to see if gummi could be made to work with UMP. I take it this
>>> went no where. If this is the case, are there any programmers who'd
>>> like to prod it to see if it could be made to work.
>> 
>> That seems like a lot of work, compared to just having people use any
>> decent text editor that they are already familiar with.  Do we have
>> significant numbers of authors and editors who are being scared away by
>> the need to directly work with LaTeX source?
>> 
>> Jonathan
>> 
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