On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 5:03 PM, paul stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Nov 14, 2010, at 3:39 PM, John Francis wrote: > >> On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 08:10:29PM -0000, Bob W wrote: >>> >>>> Odd. I use Word all day, every day. Save all manuscripts as docs and have >>>> never had a problem. >>> >>> I think it can get its panties stuck up its crack if the document template >>> gets messed up. I've been using it day in, day out for donkeys' years and in >>> most situations it seems to be ok if you can keep things simple. At the >>> place I'm working now, though, they have it set up so that users can't set >>> up and use their own default template and I find that the file sizes inflate >>> really quickly for some reason which I haven't discovered yet. >> >> That's usually because history versioning is turned on. Turn it off and >> document sizes revert to something a lot more reasonable. >> >> That said, however: a .doc file (or a .pdf) is *not* the way to store plain >> text, which is a concept that I struggle to get across to some people. I >> don't >> want a 2MB binary email attachment that I have to open in an external >> program, >> and I don't want a .doc file attached as a "comment" in a project tracker. > > Then you're different than all the publishers out there. I have never > encountered a magazine or newspaper that didn't want .doc files. They're the > industry standard. Yes, they may suck, but they're the industry standard. > Paul
Industry standard for a reason, much of which is the assists you get with a good Word Processor. For smaller chunks of text I like text editors just fine (as well as larger chunks of code), but when I want to write anything serious I use Word for the combination of spelling & grammar checks, the Thesaurus and the formatting capabilities. PDF's for text though? Ugh. Use .doc or an html file. PDF's are best used for heavily-formatted/illustrated work. -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.
