Re: [CentOS] Word Perfect [Was: Novell sale news?]

On 11/23/2010 12:55 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:

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I have never used word processing programs for much of anything serious, using vim and groff or docbook xml for most things.

I've done lots of documents, documentation, and even some published articles in SysAdmin (before it sadly went under), and everyone wants word processing docs; up through the end of the nineties, it was all WP, then it shifted to *bleah* Word.

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I'm not exactly a word processing expert, but I always thought the trick to make Word tolerable was to never apply raw formatting to individual pieces of text but instead make some styles of your own so you can subsequently modify the style definitions and have it take effect throughout the document.