I found modern workprocessors to be useless things to try make text look different sizes or have different layouts and fonts. For me I don't really care, so never really need anything other than normal text and bold, underlining and italics with the odd picture inserted. I don't care about page footers/headers, spelling, mailmerge, drawing, tables etc... I thought it was very amusing my (young) friend's uni assignment explicitly specified stupid things like line spacing, font type, font size etc...
Much as I hate to say it (I'm no fan of Microsoft's business practices) Office 2007 is actually very good. Corel and the other one (TextMaker or something) also looked interesting, so I'll check those out. One thing I will say, as a firm believer in open source, is that OpenOffice is a pig. A slow, unwieldy pig. Your file format can be as 'open' as you like, but I'm not going to use bloatware just to get a nice file format.
ashpar2008Jun 21, 2007
can someone give credit to lifehacker for finding this originally.
zhulienJun 22, 2007
I found modern workprocessors to be useless things to try make text look different sizes or have different layouts and fonts. For me I don't really care, so never really need anything other than normal text and bold, underlining and italics with the odd picture inserted. I don't care about page footers/headers, spelling, mailmerge, drawing, tables etc... I thought it was very amusing my (young) friend's uni assignment explicitly specified stupid things like line spacing, font type, font size etc...
mrsunshineJun 22, 2007
And a dice?
carzorstelatisJun 24, 2007
Much as I hate to say it (I'm no fan of Microsoft's business practices) Office 2007 is actually very good. Corel and the other one (TextMaker or something) also looked interesting, so I'll check those out. One thing I will say, as a firm believer in open source, is that OpenOffice is a pig. A slow, unwieldy pig. Your file format can be as 'open' as you like, but I'm not going to use bloatware just to get a nice file format.
wburglettJun 30, 2007
NO!