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Might be a little hard to fit the book on the computer case!! (How many crashes allowed?) | 174 comments | Create New Account
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The World: Windows users are frustrated
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 07 2013 @ 09:17 AM EDT
Last time I wrote a large document on a Windows machine, I took it home to work
on during a holiday. It wouldn't open properly on another Windows machine
(different version of Word), so I used Open Office on a Linux box instead. This
was in mid-2003.

--O4W

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Might be a little hard to fit the book on the computer case!! (How many crashes allowed?)
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 07 2013 @ 03:49 PM EDT
Seriously, Win8 can have the absolutely *greatest* UI in the world...but I know
and love my OpenOffice, hate "The Ribbon" in Office (it's clunky, and
way different from the "Good enough" interface I know)

I wouldn't write my whole book on any subject on a tablet...but I might want to
do parts, since it is such an easy carry and goes places I wouldn't dream of
trying to operate my laptop. And the "real" external keyboards??
Latest laptops I saw in Best-Buy are small all-in-one screens with a few pins to
hold the keyboard on. So they are all over the place...pick your
keyboard.....and start scribbling!

As for the "book" on Win8...well, I think it's about at chapter
5...big initial dud...(batman TV voiceover) Will our hero survive???

Maybe I could get Microsoft to pay me to write a book on Win8...as a design
failure.

(Christenson)

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Editing large documents
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 07 2013 @ 06:48 PM EDT

I used Linux and Latex for my latest thesis. The older thesis were done with WordPerfect. It was amazing the day I switched from Excel for graphs to GnuPlot. All of a sudden my graphs started coming out correctly, in proper scientific notation, with no issues about greek letters.

I also love the way that both Latex and WordPerfect can generate automated indexes, table of contents, footnotes, references, lists of figures, equation indexes, and so on. It is also possible to reformat all of a document by modifying style settings, to the point that with Latex I can automatically generate book and HTML versions of the same document.

To be honest, I didn't even given Microsoft Office 2007 and 2010 a chance. Mathematical notation is tough, and when dealing with the more advanced notation, it becomes obvious that Office's formula editor is insufficient. Worse, the graphics in the older versions of Office used to disappear. Add in some random crashing that seems to have slowly gotten better over the years, and I don't miss Microsoft Office at all.

Does anyone actually edit truly large and complex manuscripts in a productive manner in Word?

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