djc wrote:
John Rumm wrote:
The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Rod wrote:
The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Word is OK for reports and letters. You don't write books in word,
nor do you do graphics if you can help it.

For a program that merely has to place printed words on paper,
interleaved with text, its hugely too complex.

Not sure what the definitive book writing software is..possibly
LaTex or maybe quark...
A lot of the time for the simple stuff the old Write application was
acceptable. Or even, just about, WordPad.

If you are into DTP, maybe InDesign? I certainly have enjoyed playing
around in it.

Mmm. Quark is THE definitive type SETTING software. InDesign is not as
good, but its easier to use.
Quark *was* the default app of choice. They did little in response to
InDesign 1, and the result was later versions are now eating their
client base! Many publishing houses are moving over to InDesign now.

And before that it was Pagemaker. Which was displaced by Quark
because Quark was better for fashionable 'type all over the place'
magazine layouts. Horses for courses and they all gallop up a
dead end eventually.


Golly. I remember page******