> Waynel, > > It takes significant amount of work to typeset any > large document. Especially if it is a technical > document in which you have to adhere to a set of > strict typesetting guidelines. In these cases > separation of content and style is essential and > can't be stressed enough. > > Word Processors have no mechanism to enforce this > separation. So you can not guarantee that a given > document strictly follows the set standard of styling > rules - these include presentation AND language > rules. Eg. how to hyphenate certain words and how to > decide how long a given dash would be. > > In a word processor this task is manual & labor > intensive, but current advances have made it good for > one-off document. Still, they are grossly inadequate > for large documents and manuals which have to be > written by group of people, styled by another group > of people, proof-read, cross referenced, and updated > from time to time. > > SGML based tools (eg. docbook), LaTeX/TeX and Adobe > FrameMaker are the only tools that can do this at > present.
Just curious, when was the last time you used StarOffice? Sorry, can't help it. :-) This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
