Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > What point am I arguing? > > I find Word to be nearly impenetrable in its options, it's much much > easier to write when I don't have all that nonsense to deal with. > Since I only very rarely deliver formatted documents, I write and > deliver most textual work as ASCII text. When I do have to deliver > formatted documents, I prepare them in whatever works well for me and > deliver them in PDF. The tools are irrelevant as long as the product > is what the client wants. If they want a .doc file, I output the > document as a .doc as well and supply that along with the PDF. > > Having had many interactions with a many writers, most prefer to > write in something simple and leave formatting up to the book > designer or magazine editor. On those occasions when a document > requires a highly standardized and complex format, like the technical > notes I used to write at Apple, a good word processor or page layout > application is invaluable, I agree. But that's not the writing part > of the exercise ... even when I was doing that work, I did most of my > writing in text and then inserted the text into the document template > for finishing. > > Perhaps this is Pentax next move: Simple, reliable word processing > tools with great core competencies... cheap. ;-) ;-) > > Godfrey >
Wordpad on the PC has that mostly covered. I forget what the OS X equivalent is, but it's pretty good. For pure RTF stuff, Thunderbird is pretty darned good as well. -Adam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
