[LINK] ArsT: 'Microsoft Word, RIP: 1983 - 2009'

[Ivan Trundle]

On 04/08/2009, at 10:00 AM, Paul Bolger <pbolger at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well you could try Lyx http://www.lyx.org/  and you could use
> Subversion for versioning. Or you could try Google docs.

Not a viable option for managing workflow, styles, chapters, endnotes,  
footnotes, indexing, TOC, front and end matter, or many other aspects  
of book production. There is a point at which Word becomes difficult  
to manage (documents with more than about 20,000 words - but easily  
solved using chapters).

Sure, there are many alternatives to Word, but none can match it in  
the heavyweight department.

And the point at which Word fails is when desktop publishing steps in

iT