Re: [vox] This is probably a dumb question (DocBook and MS-Word stuff)

[Jonathan Stickel <jjstickel@netscape.neMAPSt>]

I don't know anything about DocBook, but I do use LaTeX.  Since your 
message prompted me to be curious about DocBook, I did a quick google 
search and found reference to DocBook->TeX/LaTeX conversion 
capabilities.  Another quick google found references to TeX/LaTeX->MS 
Word conversion.  This 2 step method would probably be difficult and 
might lose much of your formatting, but it might be worth a try.

Do you submit electronic Word documents to your professors?  That seems 
strange to me.  I use LaTeX and am able to produce top-quality PDFs, 
which of course I can send to people or print them.

Jonathan


Richard S. Crawford wrote:
> Actually, let me back up (I've found that too often the solution people
> are looking for are not the best solution to the problem they're trying
> to solve).
>
> I'm in the MLIS program at San Jose State University, and just about
> every professor wants papers and assignments turned in using MS-Word
> format.  Sure, I could pull this off in OpenOffice.org, but since I've
> always wanted to learn DocBook, I couldn't help wondering if there might
> be a more interesting approach.  What specifically interests me is using
> DocBook to render bibliographic references in standard APA format... and
> then making that same standard format happen in MS-Word without having
> to re-do things in Word itself...
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