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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Editor Wars! Post 14404 by Neo on Thursday 31st of January 2002 10:59:33 AM

01-31-2002

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I use:

VI for all my UNIX text file editing. VI is extremely fast and the search and replace functions are incredible!
MS Word for shared business documents because that is how my clients do business.

I think the secret to happiness is not to be dogmatic about IT tools but to use the appropriate and best tool based on the job, right?

However, the learning curve for VI is high and many people will not take the time to reap the benefits of VI....... I'm lucky to be a VI user for over 16 years! I've been using MS WORD for less than have of that. I did find that migrating from VI/LaTeX to MS WORD/Acrobat for professional publications was a good move for me. I will not go back to LaTeX because I don't use lots of complex math equations. If you do very complex symbols and formatting, LaTeX is the way to go, really!!

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wvcleanlatex

wvLatex(1)						      General Commands Manual							wvLatex(1)

NAME

       wvCleanLatex - convert msword documents to LaTeX

SYNOPSIS

       wvCleanLatex in_word_doc out_latex_doc

DESCRIPTION

       wvCleanLatex converts word documents into LaTeX that looks like it'd been hand-edited

MORE INFORMATION

       http://wvware.sourceforge.net

SEE ALSO

       wvAbw(1), wvWare(1), wvHtml(1), wvLatex(1), wvPS(1), wvDVI(1), wvPDF(1), wvText(1), wvWml(1), wvMime(1), catdoc(1), word2x(1)

AUTHOR

	Dom Lachowicz (current author and maintainer)
	WEB: http://wvware.sourceforge.net
	MAIL: cinamod@hotmail.com

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