Installing msttcorefonts on Fedora

I wanted to be able to use Times New Roman on my Fedora machine with OpenOffice. To do this, I did the following:

1. Install the chkfontpath package from ATRPMS. I did this just by going to http://atrpms.net/dist/f12/chkfontpath/ and clicking on the appropriate rpm. When the dialogue popped up, instead of saving the file, I told it to install it.

2. Follow the instructions here.

Fedora Core 12 on my Dual Boot Dell Inspiron 600m

I finally installed Fedora Core 12 on my ageing Dell. To do it, I followed pretty much the same procedure as I have before.

Converting LaTeX to OpenOffice, Google docs, Word, etc.

I vastly prefer to create documents using Emacs and LaTeX on my linux machine, but sometimes it's necessary to convert a document created using LaTeX to OpenOffice, Google Docs, Word, etc. I do this by using latex2rtf to convert the LaTeX document to rich text format.

latex2rtf -o mydoc.rtf mydoc.tex

After running the command above, simply open mydoc.rtf in the desired word processor and change margins, spacing, etc. as needed.