triojunkie.blogg.se - Free alternatives to microsoft word with nav pane

#Free alternatives to microsoft word with nav pane for free#
#Free alternatives to microsoft word with nav pane install#

On setupfontObjectStyle_(styleName, newValue) My setupfontObjectStyle_("all", fontChoice) set fontChoice to text returned of (display dialog "Please select a font" default answer "Latin Modern Roman") This is not a problem in the original script above, because of a complicated workaround using the find and replace command. Warning: There is a glitch in that when changing the name property of the font object of Word styles, a list template is applied to heading 1.

I recommend using Latin Modern Roman, because it is the unicode font, which replaces CMU when working with XeLateX. It can be expanded to set specific styles, but I have not finished it yet. This AppleScript handler sets the font for all styles.

toggle bold or italics for various styles.

set font sizes for various heading styles.

Note: You can edit the plist file to your liking. It supports xelatex export too! It also does a nice job exporting tables.Ī project I worked on to make Word documents resemble LaTeX documents.

#Free alternatives to microsoft word with nav pane for free#

I offer two options for you (Option 2 is best if you aren't going to compile anymore):ĭownload OpenOffice for free and download writer2latex, also free.

Put your tables and figures at the bottom or top of a page.

Indent the first line of each paragraph (although I personally don't like that).

A wider left margin also might make it more LaTeX-like.

(BTW: The key to using styles in Word is to assign shortcut-keys for the most-used ones) These could be the styles from the template mentioned, or your own defined styles. Practically, this translates to using paragraph and character styles rigorously. Most Word documents have the tendency to be a collection of slightly-different layouted text blocks because there is nothing that forces the user to do otherwise. I think that, apart from the typesetting, the consistent output produced by LaTeX is one of the things that make it look like LaTeX.

Make your document look as consistent as possible.

Other academic publishers (like Elsevier) also have similar Word templates (use Google to find them).

The author section of the IEEE website also provides a 2-column Word template for their papers, resembling quite a lot the LaTeX one.

#Free alternatives to microsoft word with nav pane install#

Use the LaTeX Template for Word mentioned by Caramdir (make sure to install the 3 mentioned fonts).Besides all the ' it isn't possible' advice, what I would advice is: