[X4U] MS Word Replacements (was: MS Office 2008 delayed)

[William C Bauldry]

Greetings All,

 "Randy B. Singer" <randy at macattorney.com> had written:
> I use Word all day, just about every day.  I don't have a single  
> complaint about its performance.  Given that, who cares whether
> it is a dual binary or not?

While I agree that usability and performance  *far* outweigh whether
a piece of software is a Universal Binary or not, I just can't see using 
Word for a serious document that is typeset. I've written 3 textbooks 
(2 in 2 editions) and &mdash; except for the very first done in Word
 in '88 &mdash; I always use LaTeX (free!) with TeXShop (free!) as the
 front-end. A LaTeX system produces professionally typeset output
(pdf directly, if desired, but always 'camera ready' copy.) &ndash; auto
ligatures, formating, indexing, ToC, floating figures/diagrams, math
typeset properly, text based source files, platform independent, and
much more.

And did I mention it's free!

Check out http://www.tug.org/mactex/ for info.

Regards,
Bill
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Wm  C Bauldry
Prof of Math
Appalachian State Univ
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