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From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: Word vs Latex
Date: 8 Mar 1997 17:33:15 GMT
Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI
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In article <01bc29e6$f20ce700$0b9e32ca@development1>,
Thomas Beagle <thomas@actrix.gen.nz> wrote:
> Peter da Silva <peter@nmti.com> wrote in article
> <5fknj1$bfb@web.nmti.com>...
> > Yes, that's the problem. Word knows what a paragraph is, and doesn't have
> > any context larger than a paragraph and smaller than a document.
> Sections, frames, and tables?
All of these are kind of overkill for an object three or four paragraphs long
that's supposed to be part of the normal text flow.
> If you're using Word for large documents you should be trying to separate
> the content from the layout as much as possible. Design your document
> layout and implement it with styles, then enter your content and apply
> styles as you go.
In other words, do the same things you'd do to create the document in a
traditional markup language, and give up most of the advantages of Word,
and end up with a document that's only readable in Word, can't be run through
third party or ad-hoc tools, and you still don't have any convenient method
for describing intermediate sized objects.
Until Microsoft provides a plain text editable storage format, preferably
SGML based, for Word documents with all their markup, I'll stick to
traditional tools.
--
The Reverend Peter da Silva, ULC, COQO, BOFH.
Har du kramat din varg, idag? `-_-'