[pdftex] MS Word hell, TeX heaven?

[Herman Bruyninckx]

On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Fabrice Popineau wrote:

> >> - searchable: it's easy to search over a big archive of (La)TeX
> >> documents.
>
> > Not that I've done so, but I would think this should be possible in
> > Word as well, if you use the right MS tools.
>
> It's builtin windows and called the Index Service. All searchable
> documents are indexed in background (provided you don't forbid it).
>
> Then you have to click Search in the Shell Explorer, don't even need to
> type 'grep' ;-)
>
But everything is Microsoft-only! Just as .NET: interesting technology,
but Microsoft only. That's why I prefer to work with the CORBA standards,
which are truely portable and independent.

So, platform and manufacturing independence is a big advantage of TeX
based tools.

Herman

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