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Posted by quant
Oct 17, 2007 at 08:46 AM

Graham Rhind wrote:
>At the risk of flogging this one to death, and just for the sake of completeness, my book
>does not contain multiple tables of contents, footnotes, multiple appendices,
>cross-referencing and so on. It does contain a table of contents but that is added at a
>later stage after conversion to pdf.

it must be very strange book without any of the basic features ...

>
>So those parts of the process are never a
>requirement - just the storing and manipulation of the text, tables and graphics.
>Word (and I’m talking about Word 2000 and its predecessor) has a clever way of opening
>large documents by opening only part of them and then opening other sections later as
>you scroll down. Other programs try to load the whole document in one go, which meant in
>my case I could have decorated my office whilst waiting.

- writing 1000 pages document in word, you must be either masochist or bill gate’s relative.
- books typeset in word are ugly, it’s a fact

Take advice from Chris, for example in Latex, you’d be typing just text, and all of the formatting is done automatically by the software when your work is compiled.

>
>And, as I mentioned, I don’t
>find Word aggravating and I do find it reliable. Naturally it won’t suit everybody,
>but what software does?

You were saying that no office suit could convert the M$ documents properly. Well, it’s not their problem, it’s because of proprietary M$ formats! Now you have a chance to test and start working with free soft (for example Open Office which is great) that implements open document format ... take that chance and soon you’ll see you never get back to M$ office

>PS - I’m just starting my fourth book - in Word :-)

can you post a link to any of your books? Is it on Amazon or google books for a preview?