<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On 3-Dec-05, at 8:21 AM, William Scammell wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV>On Nov 23, 2005, at 11:54 PM, Ardeshir Mehta wrote:</DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV>On 23-Nov-05, at 9:19 PM, Mikael Byström wrote:</DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV>Ardeshir Mehta said:</DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV>For some of my work, even MS Word is not good enough. Check out the Introduction and Chapter 1 of my book</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>Well, I don't see Word as a layout tool at all, but it works for internal company documents I guess.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>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:</DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV><<A href="http://homepage.mac.com/ardeshir/EssayOnGeometry.pdf">http://homepage.mac.com/ardeshir/EssayOnGeometry.pdf</A>></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>Looks good. For what you're doing, Word seems to be a good match.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>Yes, it does seem so to me.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>WordPerfect on a Windows machine is also good. I once used it for another book (as yet unfinished).<BR><DIV><BR></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV>But *don't* try doing multi-column layout in Word. Ack!</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>Darn right! That's why I did not use it for </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV> <<A href="http://homepage.mac.com/ardeshir/Ch.1-SingleSided-Draft.pdf">http://homepage.mac.com/ardeshir/Ch.1-SingleSided-Draft.pdf</A>>.<BR><DIV><BR></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV>And if you think InDesign is expensive, don't even look at Quark. <shudder></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>Yes, indeed. I could not afford either of them. <Sigh>.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">But PageMaker (on my Ti- Book running in "Classic" mode) satisfies my requirements, so I am not *<B><I>too</I></B>* depressed about my not being able to afford them!</SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Cheers.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BODY></HTML>