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Originally Posted by JSWolf
The problem with Word is that is does make it difficult for most to be able to output a fairly clean HTML file.
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Not to get into a "does too," "does not" argument with you, Wolfie, but, no, it doesn't.
If people can't be bothered to learn their tools, how is that Word's problem or fault? A lousy few minutes in an easy, online tutorial would not only create a file with perfectly--perfectly--clean and usable HTML, but would create a Word file that would be easier to navigate, neater, easier to move around, drag and drop chapters with one click, etc. That would also allow them to use Outline View. Document Maps. Create TOCs with the click of a button. All the "real" power of Word is in learning its built-in Styles.
All of it.
So, if people persist in using it like a typewriter, I just can't sympathize with that. If that's the approach that they're going to take with their software, they should buy Macs. That entire ecosystem caters to people who don't want to know how stuff works, or learn it.
OR, they can go the other route, and do their entire book with markup. Or learn Latex. Whatever. Personally, I don't care what people use. But listening to people whine about how "Word" creates all this cruft, when it's 99% created by their own unwillingness to invest half-an-hour in their own productivity--that dog doesn't hunt for me. Just my $.02, no doubt, all the Gates-haters will have their own opinions.
Hitch