On Tuesday 15 May 2007 17:51, Stefano Franchi wrote: > On 15 May, 2007, at 6:00 PM, Jan Peters wrote: > > One further reason: If you have years of work in LaTeX or LyX and you > > are suddenly requested to write a short article in Word - doable by > > cut-and-paste, would you write everything again? Or resuse your old > > text? > > For me, this is THE reason. I want and need to have access to > everything I write until the end of my career. No commercial package > with a closed format will ever satisfy that requirement, as I have > found out, painfully, not too long ago. The only alternative to using > open software and open standards is to set up a personal computing > museum with carefully chosen hardware/OS/word processing versions. I > have been doing this for a while, and I am getting tired of it. > > > S.
We think alike Stefano, Check out this article I wrote in 2001... http://www.troubleshooters.com/tpromag/200104/200104.htm#_editors_desk SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/
