Christian Seberino wrote:
OK but what standard would you suggest that would be better for word processing then?
PDF, PostScript, the save formats for PageMaker, Scribus, FrameMaker, etc. -- anything which actually attacks the problem of page layout.
The problem is that "word processing" conflates two different domains and does them both badly.
Some people really need semantic word processing. Lawyers, for example, rarely care what the "page" looks like as long as all of the words are present in their appropriate sections. Thus, why WordPerfect survived there a lot longer than anywhere else.
Most businesspeople want to make a pretty page. For them, word processors offer a paucity of control over page layout. Just try to adjust the spacing between individual words with a word processor.
This is why the marketing folks I know just *love* iPreach(tm) ... err ... Keynote. Steve Jobs wanted tools that made things look iPretty(tm). So, Notes and Keynote are optimized for that task. And they do a *really* good job at it.
They both take a little bit to get used to. But once you do, using a regular word processor is *pain*.
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