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.

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Warp wrote:
> 
> 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?

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Ken Tyler

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"Ken" <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote in message
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>
>
> Warp wrote:
> >
> > 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?

    Considering Warp's behavior, the more pertinent question is didn't his
father ever use the leather?

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"Tom Galvin" <tom### [at] nospamdataforgecom> wrote in message
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> >     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.
> >
> >
>
> To quote Stephen King from the afterword of his latest novel
"Dreamcatcher"

It's debatable whether or not we wish to emulate Stephen King.  I would say
"no" :)

Seriously, I think any common format (.doc, .pdf, or even .txt) should be
enough for individual contributions.  All of them are easily inserted into
other publications and, as long as it's nothing fancier than these, I
wouldn't imagine it being too much more difficult than just having a host of
.doc files.  Of course, I'm not an editor :)

...Chambers

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On Sat, 2 Feb 2002 01:35:26 -0000, "Rick [Kitty5]" <ric### [at] kitty5com>
wrote:

>I doubt anyone in there right mind would write an entire book in a single
>word doc :)

Bruce Eckel writes his in Word, and they are 1000+ pages each.


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"Peter Popov" <pet### [at] vipbg> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 2 Feb 2002 01:35:26 -0000, "Rick [Kitty5]" <ric### [at] kitty5com>
> wrote:
>
> >I doubt anyone in there right mind would write an entire book in a single
> >word doc :)
>
> Bruce Eckel writes his in Word, and they are 1000+ pages each.

    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.

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On Fri, 01 Feb 2002 23:00:59 +0100, "Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trfde>
wrote:
> 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:

> 
> 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.
> 
>

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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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