WordPerfect vs, MS Word (was: Re: [Ti] Re: OpenOffice on Mac)

[William Scammell]

On Nov 23, 2005, at 11:54 PM, Ardeshir Mehta wrote:

> On 23-Nov-05, at 9:19 PM, Mikael Byström wrote:
>
>> Ardeshir Mehta said:
>>
>>> For some of my work, even MS Word is not good enough. Check out  
>>> the Introduction and Chapter 1 of my book
>>
>> Well, I don't see Word as a layout tool at all, but it works for  
>> internal company documents I guess.
>
> Well, I've used MS Word for laying out all my other books and  
> articles. See for example my (rather short) "Essay on Geometry" at:
>
> <http://homepage.mac.com/ardeshir/EssayOnGeometry.pdf>


Looks good. For what you're doing, Word seems to be a good match.

But *don't* try doing multi-column layout in Word. Ack!

And if you think InDesign is expensive, don't even look at Quark.  
<shudder>

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