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Why Microsoft Word Must Die (antipope.org)
7 points by Brajeshwar 5 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



"But somehow, the major publishers have been browbeaten into believing that Word is the sine qua non of document production systems. They have warped and corrupted their production workflow into using Microsoft Word .doc files as their raw substrate, even though this is a file format ill-suited for editorial or typesetting chores"

This is quite an alarming prospect, for such a fundamental task as document preparation.




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