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"The only real reason to use Word is in the circumstances where you are responsible for the final presentation style yourself.
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I will join the original author in "publically slagging off the work of some very talented programmers who have put years of work into the software for no good reason that I can see here": my experiences with Word and the rest of Office have always been entirely negavtive.Īnd, you know, I imagine those "very talented programmers" (I've had better programmers among my students at my community college) were actually getting paid to put those "years of work" into Word. Among other problems, she has had to extract the footnotes into separate documents, because they get totally screwed up in the conversion otherwise. My wife has just been going through a similar process with her latest book (a biography of the architect Thomas Fuller, FWIW) as her editor wants. LibreOffice, Abiword - were able to implement import/export functions without having to reverse engineer Word format. If Word used a *real* standard format (don't try telling me OOXML is) then these problems would, over time, vanish as other software - e.g. All of the items you list are more to do with you than with Word. I'm not sure if they are deeply serious ones, or why seriousness is so highly regarded by you, but again, you're publically slagging off the work of some very talented programmers who have put years of work into the software for no good reason that I can see here.
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> "even though many deeply serious professional authors won't touch it with a barge-pole."Īnd plenty of other authors do use it fine. So again, this is an artefact of your choice in writing tool, not any indicator that Word is "utterly unusable". You would, for example, lose all your change tracking in your Word document when it had to go into Scrivener and back again. But you would still be in the same situation as minority user. If the situations were reversed Word would have export support for Scrivener for the same reasons. Of course Scrivener will export to Word because Word is the common standard and so it needs to. If the situation were the other way around and they all insisted you submit your work in Scrivener format and you wanted to use Word, you would be in the same situation. You're basically damning it for being successful. > "I wrote the bloody thing in Scrivener (which is at heart an IDE for complex compound documents like, oh, trilogies), then generated a word document as output because my editors insist on working in Word because corporate IT at the big publishers thinks everyone uses it"Īgain, not really a reason for attacking Word. I'm unconvinced MS Word's inability to merge in one of your editor's hand-written amendments on hard-copy is a reason to call it "utterly unusable". And they want me to make another pass through it and do some structural changes. Then $EDITOR scribbled on a print-out with red ink. > "Unfortunately $EDITOR edited the word doc with change tracking. I wasn't real optimistic about actually getting it published anyway, but that just sounds like a nightmare scenario. That right there is enough to make me rethink my plans regarding a currently half finished tome I was considering sending off some day. Retire to the pub, weeping copiously, to consider the possibility of switching to an exciting and fulfilling career as a car park attendant or a tax inspector. Import resulting document into Scrivener and try to rebuild the book's structure and metadata by hand.Ĥ.
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Go through change-tracked MS and PDF scan of hand-annotated print-out, applying handwritten changes. Go through change-tracked manuscript in Word (or LibreOffice) doing accept/reject on changes (I get to veto them at this stage).Ģ. Unfortunately $EDITOR edited the word doc with change tracking. I wrote the bloody thing in Scrivener (which is at heart an IDE for complex compound documents like, oh, trilogies), then generated a word document as output because my editors insist on working in Word because corporate IT at the big publishers thinks everyone uses it, even though many deeply serious professional authors won't touch it with a barge-pole. If he started the document under LibreOffice (which I suspect he did) Re: Doubly unusable if he moved the document