On Saturday 04 April 2009 12:57:16 pm Anders Host-Madsen wrote: > Steve Litt <sl...@...> writes: > > I'm not really sure I agree that it's as easy to do semantic > markup in MS Word is in Latex. There are a number of issues > First, it's much easier not to use styles.
True enough. If Al's fridge has a dozen apples, a dozen bananas, and a gallon of milk, and Ben's fridge has all those things plus three Macdonalds burgers and three orders of fries, it's just as easy for Ben to eat well, but it's much easier for Ben to eat badly. When I say it's just as easy to do styles based authoring in MS Word, that carries an assumption that the author is a professional, which both you and I are, but some of our coworkers, not so much. :-) > Personally, I always used > styles, but I'm the only one I know how does that. When I put > together documents from groups of people it's always a mess > because people used their personal formatting. Want a header? > Increase font size and make bold. > Furthermore, when copying > between documents in MS Word, the result is not always as > expected, even if styles are used consistently. I've seen that if the docs were created in two different Word versions. By the way, no matter what I write on this subject, you'll notice I write nothing more than 5 pages in either MS Word or OpenOffice. If it's longer than 5 pages, I use LyX or Komposer (a WYSIWYG HTML editor). SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US
