LaTeX looks like this:
Do you ever have to edit a document written in LaTeX? There’s recently been some discussion on Copyediting-L about how to do this. I know of three methods.
Method 1: Work in raw LaTeX
As you can see, formatting and document structure are implemented with codes. That’s okay; just don’t mess with the codes unless you know what you’re doing. You can open a LaTeX document in any text editor and start editing. When you’re finished, save the file and return it to the authors.
But what if your authors need to see your revisions? In that case, a text editor isn’t going to work. But Microsoft Word has revision tracking . . .
Method 2: Edit in Microsoft Word
There are ways to turn a LaTeX file into a Word document, but that’s probably not what your authors want. Nevertheless, you can still edit in Word, using revision tracking. Here’s how:
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After all of the changes have been either (1) accepted or (2) rejected (in other words, so that all tracked changes have been taken care of), the authors should do this:
At that point, they should be able to compile the LaTeX file as usual.
LyX is a graphical user interface for LaTeX, with its own version of revision tracking. Here’s the procedure:
At that point, your authors can (1) export the file as LaTeX (File > Export > LaTeX) or (2) process the file from within LyX. If you want to use this method, you should do some back-and-forth testing with your authors before starting work on an actual manuscript.
If you find that you like working in LyX (I do), you may sometimes need a way to convert a Word document into a LyX document, which is not an easy task—unless you use my new Microsoft Word add-in, LyXConverter. I do not, however, recommend trying to round-trip a document—that is, convert a Word document into LyX and then back into Word. Again, there are ways to do it (via OpenOffice.org Writer), but how reliable the final conversion might be is open to question.
How about you? Do you get manuscripts in formats other than Word? If so, how do you handle them? Please let me know!
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The TeXlipse plugin provides both LaTeX and BibTeX editors, a project creation wizard, and a complete user manual of the editor functions. Additional features include syntax highlighting, document outline, section folding, command completion, cite and ref completion, templates, builder integration, viewer integration with inverse search, and more. The plugin makes it possible for LaTeX documents to be edited and built like normal projects in the IDE, and the viewer support makes it easy to check the outcome.
Due to namespace changes; please note that if you have 1.5.0 or older installed you must uninstall that before installing this version.
Any issues you find can be reported at https://github.com/eclipse/texlipse/issues
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