We just don't care about Word.  We use it because somebody demands Word
documents, whereas we care about the programs we produce and their
maintainability.
On May 22, 2012 1:23 PM, "clay" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Why do so many web programmers scoff at WYSIWYG HTML tools for their
> clumsiness and praise the precision and power of direct markup editing with
> their favorite editor or IDE, but then turn around and use the same type of
> clumsy WYSIWYG tools for creating documents and slide show presentations
> such as OpenOffice, Word, PowerPoint, or Apple Pages/Keynote rather than
> the powerful and precise markup tools like LaTeX, Sphinx, etc?
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