This is another "slow" list, but the occasional messages that come through are worthy. There are about 40-50 members, and most appear to be qualified to take advantage of the list membership.

As a sample of what you might find here, this is a portion of a post entitled, "Playing With MS Word Operability:"

Thomas Link's tex2doc from http://w3.ihs.ac.at/~link/dwnld/tex2doc.htm does a passable job of converting LaTeX to MsWord6 --- I have some stray glitches in the section headers, but my subsection numbering is preserved and the fonts are correct. To qualify this test, I am as far out of practice on MsWord as I can possibly be, and I forged ahead without reading Thomas' instructions (although I did later and found I'd largely done it right). Now, I know squat about MsWord, but I know what 'macro' means and this suggests a real solution: If we can find someone to extend Thomas's macro package to handle our Style-Guide requirements, I would have no trouble creating a companion LaTeX style file.

The idea is for LaTeX to render the document locally through the DVI tools, but when it arrives at MCP, applying their tex2mcp.dot file macros would transform these LaTeX tags into the Mcpglobl.dot tags needed by the editors.