[Rd] R Newsletter: 1st Call for Articles

Emmanuel Paradis paradis@isem.univ-montp2.fr
Thu, 21 Dec 2000 12:11:42 +0100


At 08:06 21/12/00 +0000, ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk wrote:
>One option for Word users is to save in RTF, which is at least a documented
>format (and shared between word processors).  Then get a copy of rtf2latex  
>or (better) rtf2latex2e from CTAN and check out the conversion.

I use StarOffice under WinNT and it seems that the RTF files it produces
cannot be read by MS Word. I am not sure that RTF is really "portable".

I agree with a previous message:

At 17:21 21/12/00 +1300, j.visch@math.canterbury.ac.nz wrote:
>Why not just give the word users a latex template they can fill in.
>After all most of latex is just copying from previous documents.

And yes, we can produce PostScript figures under Windows as well.

Question: what will be the editorial policy of R Newsletter? Will papers be
reviewed? ...

Emmanuel Paradis
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