Les Mikesell wrote: > On 11/23/2010 12:55 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> >>> 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. >> <snip> > > 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. I dunno, that seems too complicated for me, esp. if I want to *emphasize* a single word, or ->a short phrase<-. mark