[Hidden-tech] Microsoft Office suite vs. other options

[Roger Williams]

>>>>> Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> writes:

  > "Word Processors: Stupid and Inefficient":
  > 	http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/wp.html

I wholeheartedly agree with Allin Cottrell (and Donald Knuth) on the
distinctions between composition versus typesetting and structured documents.
I've written hundreds of technical papers in LaTeX.  (I still use XEmacs for
well over half of my computer interaction.)

However, on the whole I've found it more productive to produce graphics-
intensive technical papers using structured Framemaker, i.e. NO on-the-fly
formatting whatsoever.

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