On Jul 9, 2009, at 2:48 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote:
Stephen A. Lawrence wrote:
Emacs, Linux, Mac OS, Solaris, OpenOffice, MS Word -- would you
claim that any of these have simply been left to sit on a shelf,
and that's why they haven't become so buggy they can't be used?
I meant just the opposite. They have been maintained, which is why
MS Word (for example) is so buggy it can barely be used for some
operations, such as multiple-chapter books with include files and
endnotes for each chapter. Believe me, I wasted weeks trying to do
this. In 1990 I managed it easily with Word Perfect. It has never
worked with MS Word, and with each revision it gets worse. Some
things can't be fixed. They need to rewrite this from scratch.
Perhaps this was done when Word X for the Mac was released because I
can do what you say Word for the PC can't do. In fact, I wrote my
book using Word for the Mac. Nevertheless, I have to admit that the
program has some very frustrating limitations and is unstable when it
is fully loaded.
Ed
