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On Fri, 01 Feb 2002 23:00:59 +0100, "Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trf de>
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> Getting Word to handle a larger document
there are some features to support multifile editing. There is main document and
nested documents which afaik can be simultanously edited.
> especially with images
no problems with linked images.
> will most likely corrupt the document or cause lots of other problems.
I have edited large documents with hundreds of pages and images on PII 233.
ABX
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Latex and it's similar derivatives are a standard way for publishing in
the mathematical, physical and computer science. There are many
specialized publishing companies that takes the output produced by latex
directly to press.
Alberto
Ken wrote:
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> Ken wrote:
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>>> Btw, LaTeX is not only a geeks' tool. It's really used quite a lot for
>>>serious publications (specially scientific ones).
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>>Were it not for the rare mention of it here in the news groups I would
>>have never heard of it.
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> I just got back home from a major software retailer and they neither
> carry nor have ever heard of LaTeX.
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> Getting Word to handle a larger document, especially with images will most
> likely corrupt the document or cause lots of other problems.
I edited several times > 200-page long documents with Word, replete with
dozens of tables and graphics, using the "long document" feature. This
includes reports and software manuals. I am currently editing a 250-page
book with it. All the PhD thesis and scientific papers where I work are
written with it.
G.
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Wasn't it Bill DeWitt who wrote:
> Many authors use MSWord for large books, but Rick may be right that they
>don't use only one file. The outline for my book includes 32 files so far.
>Hopefully each file will become a chapter.
Back in the days when I used to have to work, I was involved in creating
the technical docs for a large bank's computer system. (ISO 9001 and all
that). In those days, MS Word 6 had a tendency to become rather sluggish
when given a really large file, and things sent much faster if the docs
were split up into quite small chapters for general processing.
When everything was written, we had a rather complicated MSWord macro
that scanned through all the separate files and did things like
sequencing the page numbers and creating the contents and index. The
macro took several hours to run on a P75, processing nearly 1000 pages
of A4 text.
The macro was quite tricky to get just right, so these days, it might be
easier to use a fairly beefy PC and (temporarily) glue all the files
together for the final pagination and indexing.
--
Mike Williams
Gentleman of Leisure
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On Mon, 4 Feb 2002 16:44:30 +0000, Mike Williams wrote:
> The macro was quite tricky to get just right, so these days, it might be
> easier to use a fairly beefy PC and (temporarily) glue all the files
> together for the final pagination and indexing.
No need. Word has had the concept of a "master document" that links to
subdocuments for some time now.
The point isn't whether Word is powerful enough to do the job; the point is
that Word is just plain not available to a lot of people, and the format is
baroque and bizarre and very, very proprietary. However, as I don't plan
to be involved in any book projects (having far too much on my plate as it
is, and not having anything worthwhile to share anyway) my opinion really
doesn't matter. I merely suggested DocBook because it works for at least
one major and well-respected publisher of technical books.
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Heeey! Im working for Laser-Books ( a Czech SF publisher) - as a translator.
Currently, I'm working on M.J. Friedman's "A Call to Darkness." Guess what -
for nearly 10 years, they publish all their books using LaTEX and ASCII
editor only - under DOS. There are several hudnreds of their titles out
there. It WORKS!!!
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> "Ken" <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote in message
> news:3C5C8CE2.A9000EE0@pacbell.net...
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> >
> > Ken wrote:
> >
> > > > Btw, LaTeX is not only a geeks' tool. It's really used quite a lot
> for
> > > > serious publications (specially scientific ones).
> > >
> > > Were it not for the rare mention of it here in the news groups I would
> > > have never heard of it.
> >
> > I just got back home from a major software retailer and they neither
> > carry nor have ever heard of LaTeX.
>
> I've heard of it, but I have never heard of any serious writer who
uses
> it for final product. But then, I mostly know about the habits of fiction
> writers, not technical writers.
>
>
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Has YOUR father ever raytraced? Pche...
Kyosuke
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> Warp wrote:
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> > Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote:
> > : I just got back home from a major software retailer and they neither
> > : carry nor have ever heard of LaTeX.
> >
> > It's clear that you people don't have an academic background.
>
> Has your father ever used LaTeX?
>
> --
> Ken Tyler
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Jakub Hegenbart wrote:
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> Has YOUR father ever raytraced? Pche...
I taught him how over the Chrismas holidays. He is now using it to
create different lathe designs in 3D before commiting expensive
hardwoods to his shop lathe. He is rather pleased about the whole
thing at the moment.
Dad has never used LaTeX for word processing either.
--
Ken Tyler
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On Tue, 05 Feb 2002 19:00:39 -0800, Ken wrote:
> Dad has never used LaTeX for word processing either.
Well, duh! It's not a word processor, it's a typesetter.
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Ron Parker wrote:
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> On Tue, 05 Feb 2002 19:00:39 -0800, Ken wrote:
> > Dad has never used LaTeX for word processing either.
>
> Well, duh! It's not a word processor, it's a typesetter.
He ain't used it for that neitherer.
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