[Nfb-science] Formatting: An Inquiry of Resources

[Michael Whapples]

Hello,
Firstly is it worth learning LaTeX? Possibly, the greatest gain I feel 
is when dealing with mathematical notation but many sighted people still 
like it for other documents (I think they do tend to be in a more 
technical field). Eventually it comes down to personal preference, just 
keep in mind that the initial learning time tends to be longer than for 
systems like Word.

Now to how you could convert it to word document format. One option 
would be use mathtype, not really LaTeX, you use word for most of the 
document and write equations in mathtype (LaTeX input mode being one 
option in mathtype). Another alternative may be to use a LaTeX to word 
converter. I don't know any off hand but I am sure google will help here 
(I don't know much about these and I don't know how well they work).

LaTeX normally produces PDF, are you sure these wouldn't be acceptable? 
Do you know of any tools which may be could convert PDF to word format?

Michael Whapples
On 03/22/2010 07:30 PM, Christine Szostak wrote:
> Dear Colleagues,
>    I would greatly appreciate if anyone would mind posing any thoughts, views, or opinions on the below.
>
>    I have been wondering whether it is worth learning LaTeX for preparing manuscripts for scientific journals. I study Psycholinguistics, a subset of Cognitive Psychology/Cognitive Science. I plan to maintain an active research program following my grad training. Thus, I was curious if others here find LaTeX useful or what method you find most helpful for formatting. In my field, it is typically expected that a manuscript accepted, in its final version will need to be converted back to .doc. Thus, if you use LaTeX or other methods, how do you recommend dealing with this hurdle?
> With much thanks,
> Christine
> Christine M. Szostak
> Graduate Student
> Language Perception Laboratory
> Department of Psychology, Cognitive Area
> The Ohio State University
> Columbus, Ohio
> szostak.1 at osu.edu
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