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Re: All Word Processors Suck
- jimbobimbo 15y agoThat reminds me: I did my thesis in Word XP. On AMD Duron 700 MHz with less than gig memory on Windows XP (or was it 2000 back then?). I think, I ended up using almost any feature possible, including editing huge documents (although I splitted huge doc into chapter sub-documents to avoid wasting time while saving), peppering my document with enormous amount of formulas through Mathtype (Word's own Equation is Mathtype Light or something like that), having lots of illustrations, several page layout changes (portrait -> landscape -> portrait) in the same document and an automatic ToC generation. It worked out just fine. There's a reason why Microsoft still sells their Office product in the age when everyone and their dog can whip out a document online for free.
- chrisjsmith 15y agoI think the issue is that people do not know how to use the tools. I've used both LaTeX and Word extensively and i'll stick with Word. On the basis of using Word 2007 and above, I can separate content from layout quite happily, have piles of templates I have written, I can programatically control it (I have written authoring platforms on top of Word), I can merge and diff documents from my version control system, embed information from other programs (this can be a sod in LaTeX) and I can typeset math quite happily. I can also collaborate with other people quite easily which is not the case with LaTeX.