Patrick James wrote:
I think Pages gives an excellent compromise of ease of use and power.
...you're obviously not using WPs for the kind of thing I am! Last time
I looked, Pages didn't even do footnotes! indexing? cross-referencing?
citation systems? And it doesn't handle custom graphics in headed paper.
I'm not even going to mention Track Changes...
The thing to do is use the one you need, with the power you need. There
is no general recommendation that can be made beyond that...
With respect, you have no idea what I need, and Word just about does it
(most of it) awkwardly and unreliably. I've crashed every version of
Word since 6 because of the complexity of my documents (not to mention
struggling to get the damned thing to work at all in the way I want).
LaTeX is the most powerful typesetting (not WYSIWYG) tool out there
(with respect to Quark and InDesign).
But I still think it could be different -- nb so do MS, if their use of
XML is a serious step...(I gather that there's still a lot of legacy
code in there to sort out.. but that *should* one day take us beyond the
limits of RTF. In a way, I wish they had just fixed RTF instead of
starting again but I'm sure there's a good story there that I don't know...)
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