On 13 Mar 2011, at 18:07, Jason Davies wrote: > 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...
It does all of these these things superbly well. > 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... Well of course. > 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). Suggesting that people should stop using word processors and learn Latex is not very realistic. In your original post you suggest that word processors should save in "human legible" markup languages but they already do. You can save in RTF and even TextEdit will save in HTML and edit in HTML. Patrick -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
