Re: getting out of LaTeX

"Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I'm translating a linguistics article from German, and I don't want to
retype all the examples from the language under discussion, but the
author provided not a Word (or similar) file, but a pdf out of LaTeX,
and the author is now telling the volume editor that he therefore can't
provide a word processor text of the examples.

Can this be true?

Is it not possible to save a LaTeX document in a format readable by
another program?

If so, this is an enormously serious drawback to the system, even more
so than the having-to-program-every-format-change drawback.

Thank you.


Unless the .pdf file was protected by whomever created it, you should be
able to use Adobe Reader to cut and paste the text into Word or any other
application.

If you have a problem with this, I'd be happy to help you out. Just email
me the .pdf file and, if it is not protected, I'll drop it into a Word .doc
file and send it back to you.
--
Ron Jarvis
Houston, TX
ronjarvis at consolidated dot net



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