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Originally Posted by rhadin
Nathan, on the assumption that you will have the book edited by a professional editor and/or submit the book to a publisher who will do the same, I strongly suggest that you do not use Microsoft Works. Most editors use Microsoft Word; some use OpenOffice; very few use WordPerfect -- but no professional editor that I know of uses Microsoft Works because it is problematic.
If your manuscript has no formatting and is just plain text, using Works won't matter. But if you do style it (which most authors do), it will need to be converted from Works to a more standard word processing program, which usually means Word. This is necessary because many of the tools used in the editorial and production process are designed to work with Word. What works with Word doesn't work with Works.
That's my 2 cents FWIW.
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I write books that are open-source and use Works because it's my favorite one, then I start formatting it for LaTeX using WinEdt or Emacs
Now you got it?
