From: Adam Maas
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.
"Industry standard" because of Micro$ofts well known monopoly market
manipulations.
And the "formatting capabilities" are what makes me condemn Micro$oft to
the nether regions of hell. Auto-format should be off by default and
anyone who needs it can turn it on.
Micro$oft's programmers don't know what they're doing, how the hell they
going to know better than I do what I want to do? I don't really mind
them putting all the gew-gaws in there, but I do mind them making it so
difficult to turn that crap off.
Why should I have to fight the software to write what *I* want to write
the way *I* want to write it?
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