[geeks] Re: "Word Processing" != productive use of one's time....

[Bill Bradford]

On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 12:23:36AM -0400, joshua d boyd wrote:
> I had to manage a book in Word.  I had enough trouble with getting the
> tables and images that if an occasional one wasn't on the same page, I let
> it slide.  I could literally spend hours finding over some of the more
> atrocios formatting gaffes that Word spit out, and sometimes it wasn't
> worth it.  People weren't impressed when I pointed out the LaTeX would
> make it a cinche.

I wrote chapter 5 of the Solaris 8 Certification Study guide, published
a couple weeks ago by Syngress Media.  The chapter was on using the VI
editor.

The ironic part:

I had to submit the chapter in MS Word format.

(I wrote it in VI, then imported it into Word and sent it to them
 that way..)

bill

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Bill Bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
Austin, TX