Re: getting out of LaTeX

29 Aug 2006 05:12:24 -0700: "Peter T. Daniels"
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Style sheets is Word.

There's no entry "Style sheets" in the index of the xl+1232-page *Using
Word 2003* manual, so I'd say you're the one who doesn't know what
you're talking about.

From the Microsoft Glossaries it seems they called just "styles"
without the sheets. I use a Dutch Word 97, but my Word 6 was in
English, so I misremembered the term.

http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/styles/TipsOnStyles.html
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/styles/HowStylesCascade.html
http://www.microsoft.com/office/previous/xp/columns/column14.asp

Hope they're still around in Word 2003 too?

Word Styles are crap compared to FrameMaker styles; that they didn't
have the wit to separate Character "Styles" from paragraph styles shows
the level of intelligence that went into the basic design.

I just happened to see both mentioned in the microsoft glossaries.
Don't know what they are exactly. The styles I've using in Word can
contain properties of characters (size, font, bold, italic etc.) and
of paragraphs (spacing, indents, etc.).

That's the second time in one day you've admitted you're not following
this thread. Either pay attention or stay away. They go back to the
ancient control characters "line feed" and "carriage return," and in a
TeleTYpe machine (TTY, get it?) they did different things -- advancing
the paper, and moving the carriage.

Not the same thing. ASCII didn't distinguish line breaks and
paragraphs. Apples and pears.

You know as much about me as you do about phonology and --what was the
other thing you have proved to know nothing about?

DTP? Publishing? I'm a total nitwit.

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