<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On 23-Nov-05, at 9:19 PM, Mikael Byström wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV>Ardeshir Mehta said:</DIV> <BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">For some of my work, even MS Word is not good enough. Check out the Introduction and Chapter 1 of my book</BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>Well, I don't see W<FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#001FD7">ord as a layout tool at all, but it works for internal company documents I gue</FONT>ss.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></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 class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><<A href="http://homepage.mac.com/ardeshir/EssayOnGeometry.pdf">http://homepage.mac.com/ardeshir/EssayOnGeometry.pdf</A>></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>... or, if you have a broadband connection which allows you to download in a reasonable amount of time an entire book (around 1 MB) complete with all its meta-mathematical symbols, see my book "Critique of Gödel's Theorem" co-authored with my Argentine colleague Ferdinand Romero, which is available as a .pdf file from:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><<A href="http://homepage.mac.com/ardeshir/Critique_Of_Goedel.pdf">http://homepage.mac.com/ardeshir/Critique_Of_Goedel.pdf</A>></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>... both of which were written and laid out entirely with Word 98 for Mac (under OS 9 again), and then converted to .pdf flies.</DIV><DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV>which I had to format using Adobe PageMaker (for OS 9).</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE> <BR><DIV>I h<FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#001FD7">ave given lesson with Indesign 2 after having opened it 5 minutes earlier. I think it so simple yet powerful. Too bad the CS version is so slow.</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>I wish I could afford InDesign!</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Oh well. Cheers, anyway.</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>