Re: [Groff] eqn plugin for MS Word??

[Larry Kollar]

Frank Jahnke wrote:

> I am writing a highly-technical review article with a colleague who
> knows only MS Word on the Mac (and so is not particularly
> computer-savvy).  I've agreed to use Word, for which I don't much  
> care,
> but it seems to be the only way to go at the moment.  Of course I am
> doing the parts that have the heavy math -- in eqn (which I would
> otherwise use) this would be easy, but Word's equation editor is  
> pretty
> weak.
>
> Is anyone aware of a eqn plugin for Word?  Or something like it?

If the equations aren't changing a lot, you could try this:

eqn -> groff -> eps2eps

I do this with tables that I have to rotate for a large document,  
adding a "psrotate" to the chain.

Weird *should* handle EPS, although it might whine and give you grey  
boxes on the screen, the print/PDF should turn out OK. If not (and  
being Word, it wouldn't surprise me), try using pstoedit to convert  
them to WMF. If all else fails, use Ghostscript to render the EPS  
into TIFF or PNG (600 dpi should work pretty well for this).

Good luck!

-- Larry