[plug] OT word processing

[Carl Gherardi]

On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Jason Nicholls wrote:

> G'day,
> 
> On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 09:21:47AM +0800, Christian wrote:
> > In a state of mass confusion, Carl Gherardi wrote:
> > > Cant remember who sent it but products such as microsoft work do have
> > > functionality similar to latex and other markup languages
> > > Most people do simply use it as a WYSIWYG editor but this does not
> > > necessarily have to be the case.
> > 
> > Huh?  Microsoft (Sometimes) Works is just a bunch of "integrated",
> > scaled-down office apps from when I last checked (admittedly a while
> > ago).  LaTeX is a highly sophisticated text processing system.  There is
> > no comparison at all really.  Perhaps you can elaborate as to what
> > features Microsoft Works has that LaTeX has?
> 
> I think he meant Microsoft Word (not works). It does have some of the
> facilities that latex offers such as auto table of contents generation,
> defining document styles etc... Since I never use it I can't say any more
> except that my friend, who is pro-microsoft, is now using tex (on windows)
> rather than Word for uni assignments ;)

Quite correct, bad typo - I wasn't defending it, just ponting out that it
does have that functionality.

Also comparison to latex was a bad choice...

Carl