* Miles Fidelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070211 19:07]: > There are lots of reasons to dislike Word - for example, the excreble > HTML it generates when people insist on using it to prepare web pages - > but for run-of-the-mill document preparation in a corporate setting, > it's a pretty good tool. Practicality sometimes trumps religion.
While you speak of "practicality", you appear to be penny-wise but pound-foolish. The best reason to dislike Word is the experience and expense of losing the "source code" of documents composed over a period of years because of proprietary data format. This happened to me, back at the turn of the century. For the documents which were most important to me, I was able to recover the text, but character-level formatting -- italic, boldface, smallcaps, underline -- could not be recovered by automated means. It was necessary to manually add all character-level formatting to the recovered documents. Moreover, the amount of manual labour required for recovery of the text (without formatting) precluded recovery of many of the documents. That experience led me to Emacs and to GNU/Linux. May a pox be upon the implementors of proprietary data encoding schemes! Fools they be, who knowingly entrust their fortune to such evil men. RLH -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
