Re: "Never change a running system"

Dylan Sung wrote:
>
> "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:433401F8.33B9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > John Atkinson wrote:
> >>
> >> "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote ...
> >>
> >> > Dylan Sung wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Does it have to do with the fact that Windows will crash at the drop
> >> >> > of
> >> >> > a hat, or even with no hat activity whatsoever?
> >> >>
> >> >> Probably due to some internal memory conflict... Dodgy programming? :)
> >> >
> >> > MSWord2003?
> >> >
> >> > It started happening when I started working on a 400-page file; it
> >> > hadn't done it on the < 200-page file I'd begun with, but then it did
> >> > it
> >> > in that one, too.
> >>
> >> I've had trouble saving Word files with lots of pages (100 page plus on
> >> my
> >> old machine, a few hundred on my new one). Didn't crash, just refused to
> >> save sometimes. Possible to work around, but I found it easier to break
> >> up
> >> my manuscript into sub-100 page bits. I get the impression Word just
> >> isn't
> >> designed for writing whole books in one go.
> >
> > You're telling me!
> >
> > However, the only application that _is_ so designed, FrameMaker, was
> > bought up by Adobe for the purpose of destroying it, and after a few
> > years they did exactly that -- there will not be an OS X version. I've
> > heard that the Windows version is still supported but will not be
> > updated. And I've also heard that InDesign, which is supposed to do what
> > FrameMaker does, doesn't by a long shot.
> >
> > And Office Publisher is equally useless.
> >
> > I just formatted a diagram with arrows, and the endpoints can't be any
> > closer together than a whole pica. (Unless there's a way to change the
> > fineness of the "Snap To" grid or to turn it off that I haven't found
> > yet -- in FrameMaker, needless to say, there is.)
>
> Isn't "Microsoft Works" a good example of an oxymoron?
>
> How about trying Open Office?

I didn't choose the software.

Turns out you can reduce the snap-to grid all the way to 0.1 inch. The
diagram came out slightly better.

At the 2002 MacWorld (the last one I could go to -- 2003 was also in NY,
but I was in Stanford that week) there was a booth for a $50 Office
imitation that could do almost everything MSOffice could do. I asked
about footnotes -- nope.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@xxxxxxx
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