On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 04:13:38PM -0700, Paul Sander wrote:
> The thing is, most writers seem to prefer WYSIWYG editors such as Word or Frame
> Maker to using mark-up languages. This is reasonable, because they're much more
> productive with such tools, especially since they're much more concerned with
> an attractive presentation than are engineers who happen to write simple documents.
Precisely the point. "Attractive presentation" means squat if the content
is useless. Concentrate on the content, not the presentation.
Of course, I wouldn't consider a 200+ page user/installation guide a simple
document. But then, that's just me.
> Choosing an inferior tool just because the version control system can't handle
> a full-featured one is a poor way to work.
*shrug*
Name calling.
I consider Word to be an inferior tool.
mrc
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