On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 01:47:24PM -0700, Michael Torrie wrote: > Richard Esplin wrote: > >LaTeX is a great way to build attractive and easy to maintain > >documents with very little effort. Any time that you want a good > >looking document, but you are not too picky about how exactly the > >document is typeset, LaTeX can do your work for you. It frees you > >from the formatting of the document so that you can focus on its > >structure and content. > > > It astounds me how many people write up entire books in MS Word, > complete with all the trimmings like table of contents, index, > figures, equations, etc. Just asking for trouble. Word is not a > typesetter nor is it a desktop publisher. MS Word (and OpenOffice > and all the other programs that follow this flawed WYSIWYG paradigm) > is merely a glorified typewriter.
To satisfy CAPP/EAL4 requirements, I was on a team of three engineers
this year whose job it was to document the core Linux kernel and set
of userspace applications. One engineer used Microsoft Word to write
his documentation. He had HUNDREDS of pages and diagrams comprising a
low-level design document of the 2.6 Linux kernel. By the time he was
near the end, he would have to wait up to *half an hour* for the
document to save to disk, and it was tedious to do minor edits due to
poor responsiveness. He swore that he would never use Word for such a
large and complex document ever again.
Mike
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Why is it that when everyone freaks out, I'm always the one who gets
the phone call?
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