Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
> > So does Microsoft Word... have you ever tried to manage a document
> > that's more than 18 pages in Word? With images and tables of contents?
>
> Ahem, I did. 291 pages, more than 80 images, footnotes, toc and
> index, all with Word97. Wrote it in separate docs and finally
> put the whole thing together. Took me 2 working days to manually
> correct pagebreaks, footnotes, image-descriptions, Pagenumbers
> in toc, etc.
The biggest document I ever did in Word 97 was some 45, 50 pages, with
photos, tables, footnotes, etc... it was very unstable -- it would choke
halfway through printing (and no, it wasn't it the printer's fault -- it
happened on different machines with different printers) - okay, fine, so
we print from where the last print job stopped, right? Wrong -- now all
the page numbers were incorrect (it had tremendous difficulty with
pagination, it seemed).
It was infuriating. I'll never trust a large document to Word again --
if I need to do big stuff I'll use Framemaker (which comes in a version
for Unix, by lucky happenstance =) ).
> Trying to make a point that you *can* do a large doc in Word!
> Also you could do large documents in stones some 4000 yrs ago!
> Just a matter of time and manpower.
Yes... but by extension you could also do it in StarOffice =)
-Stephen-
