Sheldon Lee Wen wrote:
>
> "Stephen",
>
> Yes, I have used word for large files
> and I've used it since msword version 6.0
>
> I'm the author of an open content FRPG,
> http://members.xoom.com/Lycadican
>
> it's split into two word docs which combined
> total ~412 pages. I've never had msword choke
> on them. I've had msword for some reason grow
> the file size without reason. Once the file size
> grew to 63MB. I had to cut and paste everything
> to a new file (and then spend hours reformatting)
> and the size went down to ~20MB.
>
> However, now that I've moved to LInux I'm looking
> for something just as good for Linux so I an port my
> document over. I'd REALLY like it if it had an open,
> sane file format but I think right now that would be asking too
> much. (Hopefully KWord will mature to the point where
> I can import my docs to a reasonable extent).
Hmn... well, you might try Adobe Framemaker (as I mentioned earlier on
the list). Apparently there is now a Linux beta available (and as a note
to others: Framemaker was originally a Unix app, it was ported to
Windows) and it already runs in Solaris.
It's *excellent* for large documents.
-Stephen-
