I pay a great deal of attention to the question "who's going to maintain it after I'm gone?", when I'm coding; it's for that reason that I stick to VBS and VBA when writing tools for my clients in MS Office, and why I resisted the temptation for years before finally breaking down and getting myself a copy of ooRexx. In this case, though, I'm confident that the answer to the question regarding this document is "no one". After they send me home (and contractors ~always~ get sent home eventually, this client's assurances notwithstanding), I know good and well that no one will think to modify it thereafter. In fact I'll be flattered if anyone does more than glance at it even now. But I owe it to them to document the process, nonetheless.
--- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* If you want to see a flagrant and spectacular violation of the known laws of physics, watch what my son does if we are in a public place and for some reason I need to burst into the opening notes of "Respect" (WHAT you want! Baby I got it!). When this happens, my son's body will instantaneously disappear into another dimension and re-materialize as far as two football fields away. The results are even more dramatic with the song "Got My Mojo Workin'". -Dave Barry, 1996-08-11 */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Matt Hogstrom Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2022 09:52 Fair comments. In my travels I’ve not seen anyone use Libre Office or LaTeX; I’m not knocking them but if they are not widely used who will maintain the doc later when we all retire? When considering authoring docs like programs we need to consider the downstream consumers / maintainers so I’d go with the popular tools of today. > --- On Dec 22, 2022, at 8:13 AM, Seymour J Metz <sme...@gmu.edu> wrote: > Why word? (open|libre)office is free, as is LaTeX ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
