On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 11:13:29AM -0500, Sandy wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >> P.S. This thread of mines grew on the attempt to convince my little > >> cousin to adopt pmwiki (instead of M$Word) for her university papers. > >> Does anybody have live experience on this? Suggestions, advices, > >> warnings...? > > > > I don't think it'd be a good idea - to slow to edit pages that way, and > > her university will probably have requirements on the formatting.
> Engineering graduate and technical writer here. Lots of writing, solo, > with groups, and everything in between. Largest project was 500 pages of > QA documents. > > Much as I hate monopolies, I use Word for all but the smallest > compositions, especially those to be printed. It's designed for it. More Real Academics use LaTeX. 8-) Best and prettiest output for printing. Doesn't crash like M$-Word. If you want more WYSIWG-like, then use LyX (http://www.lyx.org) On the other hand, if one is doing *collaborative* work, then a Wiki does have advantages. Kathryn Andersen -- _--_|\ | Kathryn Andersen <http://www.katspace.com> / \ | \_.--.*/ | GenFicCrit mailing list <http://www.katspace.com/gen_fic_crit/> v | ------------| Melbourne -> Victoria -> Australia -> Southern Hemisphere Maranatha! | -> Earth -> Sol -> Milky Way Galaxy -> Universe _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list pmwiki-users@pmichaud.com http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users