word processing (was: [oclug] Inviting M$ to OCLUG)

[Rod Giffin]

On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 22:26, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> On 12/11/04 Mike Roy said:
> 
> > 	To answer the specific question.  Wordperfect continues to offer
> > its ???reveal code??? feature with saves considerable time and effort when 
> > attempting to correct a document.  This feature is not available in M$ 
> > Word nor OpenOffice.  

Actually it is.  Slightly different paradigm is all, but the feature is
there in both.

> Wordperfect also offers a number of macros
> > including a ???save to A??? which saves a file to both the HD and the floppy.
> > Again, this feature is found only in Wordperfect (but not in the Linux
> > flavor).

Interesting objection.  I'd use that feature, oh about never.  You know
that you can write or import a Macro in both MS Office and OOo that does
the same thing?   You're lucky if at work you're not saving to a
document management system rather than your local disk anyway.

> Personally, for basic word processing, I still prefer LaTeX. ;-)

To each their own I suppose.  It's largely that - you use what works for
you.  Everything else varies from being junk to being interesting.

Rod.