LaTeX and big writing projects

[Robert cole]

Thanks for all of the input here.

I am trying to rely less and less on screen magnification, and I think I 
have a lot of good hints and ideas on where to go now so that I can get 
a bit further away from relying on my last bit of vision in order to do 
things.

It takes me a very long time to perform certain formatting tasks in 
LibreOffice, and it gets so frustrating when trying to point-and-click 
on the right thing. It sounds like the learning of LaTeX may be quite 
beneficial to me as I love to write, and I have had many book ideas over 
the past years. It would definitely, for the most part, eliminate the 
frustrations of having my good eye so close to the screen and trying to 
click on the right tools to do certain things.

Thanks for all of the input.

On 03/02/2012 03:46 AM, Chris Brannon wrote:
> "Michael Whapples"<mwhapples at aim.com>  writes:
>
>> I have to agree with Liz though, you may come across times where the
>> expected format means using LaTeX is not possible (eg. I am studying
>> with the Open University and I must submit my project report as a word
>> document or RTF).
> Here's what you do.  Run latex2rtf to produce a .rtf file from your
> LaTeX source.  If they want an actual .doc file, then just rename
> document.rtf to document.doc, and send that to them.  Most people don't
> know the difference, and neither does Microsoft Word.  It will open the
> .rtf file without complaint, even though it has the wrong extension.
> This is what I do when people ask for Word documents from me, and it
> works like a charm.
>
> -- Chris
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