Well, I worked as a tecwriter, and there were two shows MS Word and FrameMaker,
The first is not really a techwriting tool but is used as such, and it is buggy, and I mean buggy. The second is a real tool, but a pain to learn and a pain to use. I personally hate word processors and avoid them if at all possible they are all bloatware. That said I use Oo when I need to open and save MS word docs. For profesional use I use DocBook, from docbook I can make html, pdf, rtf svg to name a few output formats. I don't tell clients what I use I just ask them what format they want the results in. For the final version I send a pdf, so they shouldn't mess up my hard work. docbook is a standard, a language MS Word and and Oo are applications bound to a file format. What do you do with a MS word document that is corrupted? Cry. With xml (including Oo) just open the file in a text editor and laugh. If you are using tables to format with or aligning text with spaces, then you are inviting trouble. Aaron On Wed, 2005-10-05 at 13:46 +0300, Peter wrote: > > On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Uri Even-Chen wrote: > > > I think many people on this mailing list are interested in this subject. > > Yes, they are. Look at the pretty flames ... > > Peter > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
