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Re: If Bill Gates is such a great philanthropist . . .

Subject: Re: If Bill Gates is such a great philanthropist . . .
From: "Barry Campbell" <barry -dot- campbell -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: "Jonathan West" <jwest -at- mvps -dot- org>
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 15:18:57 -0400

On 10/26/06, Jonathan West <jwest -at- mvps -dot- org> wrote, first quoting me:

<<Word is *not* very good at supporting professional writers who know how to
use computers and who need to generate long, complex documents, especially
people who do serious writing in academic, technical, or scientific
fields.>>

Actually, it does do it pretty well, but you have to put as much effort into
learning it as you would have to in order to learn Frame.

An intriguing assertion, Jonathan, and one which I would desperately
like to believe, but one with which I disagree based on twenty years
of experience writing technical documentation in Word (I've been using
Word since 1985, or if you want to restrict this to Windows versions
only, 1989.)

Writing documentation in FrameMaker poses its own set of problems, as
does writing documentation directly in a markup language in a text
editor; however, in neither of those environments have I suddenly had,
for example, numbered lists Just Stop Working, or stylesheets
mysteriously become corrupted, and so forth.

If you avoid the grievously broken "features" in Word, use simple
stylesheets and templates, and plan a document, you can usually do
okay; I agree with you there.

But those are workarounds, not behavior that you'd want or expect from
a tool that's suited to the task.

- bc

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