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To: andreas_wonisch who wrote (72108)	2/21/2002 8:42:23 AM
From: Dan3	Respond to of 275872

Re: After a document has reached a certain size Word randomly screws up the layout Which is why attorneys almost all use WordPerfect. We produce a lot of large documents in Word, but have to keep each chapter in a separate file - which eliminates any possibility of using features like automatic table of contents, endnotes, index, etc.

To: andreas_wonisch who wrote (72108)	2/21/2002 12:40:25 PM
From: fyodor_	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Having said that, while I use LaTeX a lot I do it with a Windows editor (WinEdt). And of course I write letters or small articles with Word. It always depends on what you are doing and what you are achieving what application is the best. It would be nice if there were a killer text application which could do everything for you but unfortunately Word isn't it. Have you tried Scientific Word? It's been a few years since I used it (back in '97), but it was quite good. It's really more than just a shell for LaTeX - it's kind of like a complete "MS Word" done with LaTeX as the underlying format. You can switch rather seamlessly between the MSWord-ish WYSIWYG format and the underlying LaTeX code. It's also significantly easier to use than "pure" LaTeX, since you can use the GUI to do everything (somewhat similar to what MSWord, Star Office etc. allow). And, of course, all the advantages of LaTeX are preserved since the code is fully LaTeX compliant. Since I've used it last, they seem to have integrated a front-end to Maple (somewhat similar to Mathematica) and widened the feature set to allow HTML publishing of the content. Scientific Word mackichan.com -fyo