Re: [GD-Design] Design Documents

[J C L. <cl...@ka...>]

On Wed, 07 Nov 2001 12:38:38 -0500 
Kent Quirk <ken...@co...> wrote:

> I have to reiterate: Word is a very bad choice for what you're
> trying to do. It's way too heavyweight, gives the users too much
> control where you don't want them to have it. I have seen it many
> times, and heard of it many more times -- if you use Word as your
> spec creation tool, you end up adapting your processes to cope
> with its weaknesses. It's just a terrible way to create structured
> documents.

Agreed.  Either SGML (DocBook?) or (La)TeX would seem the obvious
choices and are the canonical solutions to this problem.

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J C Lawrence
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