I have avoided replying on this thread. It is not my job to shill for Microsoft on a mainframe forum.
However, just to get the facts on the record, let me say that I have been composing very complex manuals with included text and generated TODs and indexes in MS-Word for years, and publishing them as PDFs, with 100% success. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Bob Bridges Sent: Monday, December 26, 2022 6:52 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Markup languages - more on the shortcomings of MS Word Once we were done with Christmas morning, my son and his family took off for other Christmas venues and I spent most of the day downloading MiKTeX (an editor for LateX) and reading documentatino. Finding the documentation was a bit of a chore and I'm not satisfied yet that I have everything I'll need, but the web eventually yielded up manuals whose titles, at least, claim they're about LaTeX, LaTeX2e, TeXWorks and MikTeX. I have a lot of reading yet to do. This morning I emailed the Word document to myself and tried saving it as PDF. Turns out Word is awful at that too. It skipped over most of the ToC and jumped from there straight to the beginning of the second chapter, omitting the Intro. I probably won't bother to see what else is wrong with it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
