[Rd] R Newsletter: 1st Call for Articles

[Charles C. Berry]

On 21 Dec 2000, Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:

> "Yves Gauvreau" <cyg@sympatico.ca> writes:
> 
> > This is a very nice idea. I would have a problem tough with the Latex format
> > you require. I'm almost certain that to most Windows user, Latex is as bad
> > news as a foreign language you know nothing about. Would there be an
> > alternative to please every body?
> 
> Not really, dealing with MS Word would be a nightmare, and LaTeX is
> just about the only format with decent treatment of mathematics.
> 

FWIW, at least one of the equation setting add-ons for WORD (MathType, see
http://www.mathtype.com ) has TeX as its engine. It will optionally
provide (La)TeX on the clipboard for pasting into non-WORD docs. So a WORD
user could provide ascii for the text and (La)TeX for equations.


> However, I'm pretty sure that plain ascii would also be acceptable for
> simple articles. On the other hand, why should the editors have the
> trouble of putting all code excerpts in \begin{verbatim} ..
> \end{verbatim} constructs, etc.? 
> 
> Perhaps one could define a simplified LaTeX markup similar to .Rd.
> 
> Or maybe just point people towards MiKTeX and give them a crash course
> in LaTeX? For plain text, the format is really quite simple.
> 
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Charles C. Berry                        (858) 534-2098 
                                         Dept of Family/Preventive Medicine
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