From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Luis O. Silva" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Book writing mode? Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 20:30:12 -0600 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <16567.62900.933081.577513@mmyn404.iimas.unam.mx> References: Reply-To: "Luis O. Silva" NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1085809741 1618 80.91.224.253 (29 May 2004 05:49:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 05:49:01 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 29 07:48:56 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BTwiF-0000yS-00 for ; Sat, 29 May 2004 07:48:56 +0200 Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=mailman.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BTwiJ-0005NI-QN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 May 2004 01:48:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BTwi8-0005ND-TI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 May 2004 01:48:49 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BTwi6-0005N0-ME for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 May 2004 01:48:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BTwi6-0005Mw-4g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 May 2004 01:48:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.41.8] (helo=mx20.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1BTw3W-0001b1-7B for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 May 2004 01:06:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [194.67.23.121] (helo=mx1.mail.ru) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BTsd5-0006cB-V6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 28 May 2004 21:27:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [132.248.51.45] (port=1075 helo=mmyn404.iimas.unam.mx) by mx1.mail.ru with esmtp id 1BTsc1-0008wN-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 May 2004 05:26:13 +0400 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 7.03 under Emacs 21.2.1 X-Spam: Not detected X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:18854 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:18854 Hi, On Fri, 28 May 2004 00:05:30 -0500, Joe Corneli writes: Joe> Maybe you can bring this difficulty up with the Joe> publisher. If the publisher can supply an appropriate Joe> LaTeX .sty file, it will save future authors the Joe> formatting hassle. I agree. LaTeX is the best option for both the writer and the publisher. Moreover, it is difficult for me to imagine how I could write a serious text, even when it is not so large, without RefTeX. Nevertheless, I've found myself, more than once, in the case when I need just plain text; for example when your work will be read in an e-mail and there is no way of displaying a pdf or a dvi file. This is the case when you need just a well formatted easy-to-read text file. Well, even in these cases, I prefer to use LaTeX and later recur to pdftotext. This formula works almost perfectly. The only problem may occur when you don't write in English, as is usually the case for me :-( Acknowledging that this is out of theme, I would appreciate some hint of other applications for converting dvi or pdf files to text files and that could handle different encodings. Thanks, luis