On 17-7-2011 21:24, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Jul 2011 11:26:12 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>
>> On 16/07/2011 08:52 AM, Warp wrote:
>>
>>>     Competition is not pointless. It entices betterment and progress.
>>
>> Sure. But given the choice between (say) a document editor that can
>> handle bold and italic text, verses Microsoft Word 2010... it's not much
>> of a competition, is it?
>
> Depends on what you need.  If you just need to do bold and italic text,
> why spend the money on Word 2010 or the full office suite?  If the need
> is just those two things, getting Office 2010 is like using a nuke to
> kill a midge.

1) I prefer LaTeX, so bold and italic are an unnecessary luxury.
2) Word until now was unable to save a document and layout in a 
internationally recognized standard format. I haven't seen Word 2010, 
but if it still isn't able to save in e.g. .odt I prefer not to use it.



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