Waynel, It takes significant amount of work to typeset any large document. Especially if it is a technical document in which you have to adhere to a set of strict typesetting guidelines. In these cases separation of content and style is essential and can't be stressed enough.
Word Processors have no mechanism to enforce this separation. So you can not guarantee that a given document strictly follows the set standard of styling rules - these include presentation AND language rules. Eg. how to hyphenate certain words and how to decide how long a given dash would be. In a word processor this task is manual & labor intensive, but current advances have made it good for one-off document. Still, they are grossly inadequate for large documents and manuals which have to be written by group of people, styled by another group of people, proof-read, cross referenced, and updated from time to time. SGML based tools (eg. docbook), LaTeX/TeX and Adobe FrameMaker are the only tools that can do this at present. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
