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Re: Why so many??
by anon on Saturday 10/May/2008, @01:47
While witting a book I started off in OpenOffice, then moved to Kword, both applications left me dual booting windows simply so I could use office without the need for wine. It's nice to build applications to try and get people away from office, but when you use those applications and then they screw up your work when given to the publisher, it is not worth the time and hassle. I personally do not see a time when I will move back to either, and have become my next novel using Microsoft Word
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Re: Why so many??
by Boudewijn Rempt on Saturday 10/May/2008, @08:50
On the other hand, when someone I knew had to write a book, and did it in MS Word, and noticed she had only 70 pages out of about 500 left after a save, I had to take a three hour train journey to help her out. In the end, I only got the project to the printer through Open Office.

In other words, assuming that Word won't screw you is a really sure-fire way to get screwed.
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  • Re: Why so many??
    by JRT on Saturday 10/May/2008, @12:04
    Writing long and/or complicated documents with MS-Word is not really a safe thing to do. This is why many attorneys and government agencies use WordPerfect.

    OpenOffice-Writer is a useful replacement for MS-Word, but it isn't nearly as good as WordPerfect-8.x (the last version ported to UNIX [this is WPDOS not WPWIN]).

    I do hope that the KWord developers set their sights on WordPerfect rather than MS-Word.
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Re: Why so many??
by Renaud on Sunday 11/May/2008, @12:18
Have a look at Lyx (http://www.lyx.org/), that is rock-solid, LaTeX-based document formatter.
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