It's been ages and someone told me that they are allowing Word's pagination now as long as you explicitly say that's what you are doing (or something like that)

It's been ages and someone told me that they are allowing Word's pagination now as long as you explicitly say that's what you are doing (or something like that). But basically, pagination is incredibly important in legal documents. References are to specific pages and because footnotes can often span multiple pages, it is important that you render it correctly (or else the reference will point to the wrong page). There is a specification for how to paginate legal documents in the US, but I don't remember where to get it. IIRC it is based on the Chicago Handbook of Style. The other place you can find the correct explanation of pagination is in the TeX source code, because it does it correctly. My memory of what Word does wrong is really fuzzy, but I think it has to do with footnotes that are longer than one page. Every version, the DOJ would order thousands of upgrades of Word Perfect at full price. In exchange for that, we would pretty much fix any bug they wanted. We even wrote a printer driver for them once. If you look at the year end reports for Corel around the 2000 year mark, you will see the office suite numbers broken out. These are mostly to legal document users.