[pdftex] Re: MS Word hell, TeX heaven?

Axel Thimm Axel.Thimm at physik.fu-berlin.de
Thu Mar 13 13:01:40 CET 2003


On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 11:13:07PM +0100, Magnus Lie Hetland wrote:
> Gerben Wierda <Sherlock at rna.nl>:
> > I am looking for true stories, examples why people have ditched Word 
> > (an other programs like it) and moved to TeX. What they like and 
> > dislike about the move.
> 
> I suppose these data don't support your hypothesis, but I've actually
> written a 600 page book in Word -- though I must admit each chapter
> was a separate file ;)

How many chapters, 600? Any pages with text? ;)

More seriously, what really counts here is large scale manageability (pages x
complexity per file/session).
-- 
Axel.Thimm at physik.fu-berlin.de
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