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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!phaedrus.kralizec.net.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!newsfeeds.sol.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.nacamar.de!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: 19 Mar 1997 15:59:00 GMT Organization: LF.net GmbH, Internet Services, Stuttgart, Germany Lines: 41 Message-ID: <01bc347f$ad67e750$4d6cb4c3@trischas> References: <5d3sr2$44n@nntp1.best.com> <5ffg7n$c69$1@mars.mcs.net> <5fknj1$bfb@web.nmti.com> <01bc29e6$f20ce700$0b9e32ca@development1> <5fn30b$heo@nntp1.u.washington.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: dyn14.ulm.netsurf.de X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1157 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:165651 comp.os.linux.networking:72759 comp.os.linux.setup:103660 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6413 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2865 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:57351 > One of the disgusting things I found working w/ Word with other people > was that they _didn't_ do such things. They did stuff like hitting the > return twice to put a space between paragraphs -- ending up with blank > paragraphs to cause the spacing -- rather than setting the paragraph > style to have inter-paragraph spaces. And I found places where for > headings they didn't use the proper heading style (which would take > care of things like not breaking the page between the heading and the > following paragraph), but instead just wnet to the menu bar and changed > the fontsize and emboldened it. > ________________________________________________________________________ > Dr. William R. Somsky somsky@phys.washington.edu > Department of Physics, Box 351560 B432 Physics-Astro Bldg > Univ. of Washington, Seattle WA 98195-1560 206/616-2954 Oh, yes, some people do! We do automatted publishing with Word. And I think it is pretty nice. You can use Word as a "YAFIYGI" also. But it keeps being easier than comparable software. (no, I'm no Bill Gates fan at all; but Microsoft Office 7 and 8 are peaces of good software) Ok, ok. One problem is unsolved: WYSIWYFNWG (What You See Is What You Fortunately Not Will Get) ;-) Perhaps the problem is that our Billy made his money selling trash (a friend of mine renamed his win.com to loose.com... just for the case, he needs it at all on his Linux machine...) ; but now, when Billy is rich, he starts to produce good software (ever tried Windows NT or Microsoft Developers Studio?). Where is the Office for Linux? Not even Star Office! Let's work on it... VB. -- mailto:vb@ulm.netsurf.de