On 1/11/07, Uwe Thiem <uwix@iway.na> wrote:
>
> On 11 January 2007 14:05, Ralf Stephan wrote:
> > > I was being very ambiguous the first time and I apologise. The problem
> is
> > > that I have some readily written texts in Windows doc format which
> > > contain mathematical formulas and I need to be able to read them.
> >
> > Not knowing if it's possible to read that with OpenOffice,
> > I would advise you to rewrite in LaTeX. It's a good way to
> > learn the typesetting and you'll love how it looks. If you
> > care for your text use LaTeX. Do you think all the scientists
> > who put their preprints on arXiv.org can be wrong?
>
> People, this poor guy has some documents, most probably *not* written by
> himself, he needs to read. Advice to re-write his documents is completely
> besides the point!


That is correct, I am not in the position to rewrite the whole work. I
already know some LaTeX and I love it, but I haven't the time or the
credibility to do a rewrite (I am a student and the system is sub-par here
in Romania).

Vlad, if you don't mind, please send one of your docs (a small one, not more
> than 100KB, I am with a modem) and I'll tell you whether they can be
> rendered
> properly in kword or OpenOffice. I'll let you know about the outcome. If
> you
> send it, please do so off-list.
>
> Uwe


Uwe, thanks for the offer, I sent you the file.