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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.apfel.de!fu-berlin.de!unlisys!news.maz.net!news.is-europe.net!LF.net!not-for-mail From: "VB" <vb@ulm.netsurf.de> 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: 22 Mar 1997 20:55:53 GMT Organization: LF.net GmbH, Internet Services, Stuttgart, Germany Lines: 21 Message-ID: <01bc3704$ab51c170$4b6cb4c3@trischas> References: <5d3sr2$44n@nntp1.best.com> <5ffg7n$c69$1@mars.mcs.net> <5fknj1$bfb@web.nmti.com> <01bc29e6$f20ce700$0b9e32ca@development1> <5fs7sr$7fk@web.nmti.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dyn12.ulm.netsurf.de X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1157 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:165922 comp.os.linux.networking:72943 comp.os.linux.setup:103908 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6439 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2871 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:57452 > 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. Hey, did you miss RTF? Greetings, VB. -- mailto:vb@ulm.netsurf.de