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On Thu, 2002-03-28 at 06:57, Kevin Donnelly wrote:
On Wednesday 27 March 2002 9:28 pm, Kevin McLauchlan wrote:
- written a 150-page document with 6 or seven <large snip> - export (clean, comprehensive and not broken) of industry-standard file formats...??
Seems to me this is a wish-list, rather than a comparison with what MS Word can actually do. Numbered lists, for instance, were a hair-tugging disaster the last time I used them, particularly if you changed formatting for one item in the list. As regards PDF output, SO+PS/PDF viewer makes this as easy as cake - I doubt if Word could do it easier.
Kevin
Heh, heh... Part of it is certainly a wish-list when I'm working with Word -- though Word has improved dramatically with recent releases (maybe someday they'll learn to do tables... sigh... moan). But, that list was basically a minimal feature description from FrameMaker and Ventura. Unfortunately, neither of them is being ported to Linux. Actually, come to think of it, WordPerfect did rather well in most of those departments. But, it's not open source AND I'm not sure how secure its future is. (Yah, I know those other apps are not open source either, but I'd be prepared to forgive FrameMaker that little indiscretion if only Adobe could find a business-case for porting it over. But, NO-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o... :-) /kevin