Quote:
Originally Posted by ghmerrill
Yeah, I do totally get that; and I'm not suggesting you should do otherwise.
My wife is now encouraging me to just move to the new version of Word for the authoring part to finish the 3 chapters of the book that are left. But I'm reluctant to do that based on ... what? ... about 35 years experience with Word in its various incarnations.
But you've given me some reasonable alternative ways to go.
|
I used to think that Word was horrible...right up the point where I bothered to learn how to use it. As a former Wordperfect user, Word was dreadful, terrible, blab-blab-blab. Then one day, I was working on a document that was going to be 300 pages of internal cross-references, etc.
I bit the bullet and took a few hours of time, learned Styles and Headings and the Outline functions--and never looked back.
In over 6,000 books that I've now quoted, at my shop, I can count on ONE HAND--one hand!--the number of files I've seen where people even used heading styles, much less paragraph styles. It's sad, to me, that people have been so iPhone-ized that they think that EVERYTHING has to be
magic, has to be
intuitive, or they can't be bothered. All these authors caused themselves many more hours of work, just because they can't be bothered to
learn the tool.
I see this comment all the time, how "horrible' Word is. Yeah,
if you use it like a typewriter with word-wrap, the underlying stuff will indeed be horrible. Still loads better than
anything out of Pages or god-help-us, iAutjhor, but
if you use Styles, the output from Word can be put almost DIRECTLY into Sigil and left as-is. And would be almost indistiguishable from typing directly IN Sigil.
FWIW.
Hitch