RE: The case against M$ Word

["Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>]

I didn't say it was either/or -- Chris did. In nearly 12 years of tech
writing, I haven't seen a project that Word couldn't handle. But it's
Chris' needs we're discussing, and for his needs, Word is inadequate.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary Schnabl
> Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 8:47 PM
> To: Dan Goldstein
> Cc: TECHWR-L
> Subject: Re: The case against M$ Word
> 
> Why would it need be an exclusive-OR decision? Use Word for 
> any of the word processing or light-duty DTP work. And use a 
> real DTP application for the heavy lifting. Why would cost be 
> a major factor? The major authoring/editing packages today 
> are getting to be brain-dead simple to use.
> 
> Gary
> 

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