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• Subject: Re: Word 2003 schemas available
• From: Alaric B Snell <alaric@a...>
• Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 15:55:44 +0000
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Stephan Wiesner wrote:

> Afterwards I wrote a book about Struts. The publisher forced me to use 
> Word. I had a lot of problems with it. Formats disappeared, or were 
> transformed. Word crashed. I had to split the book into several files 
> and had to fight with the references between these documents. etc, etc, 
> etc.
> I keep promising myself that if I ever become a famous author I will 
> force my publisher to allow me to write in XML . . .

I'd agree with that! Although most of you here on XML-DEV probably think 
of me as rabidly anti-XML, that's just because I disagree with using it 
for data interchange - things like DocBook are much easier to do in XML 
than SGML, an absolute pleasure. I'd choose DocBook/XML in Emacs over 
Word (for writing books, anyway - letters really need a different 
document structure) any day!

> 
> Stephan
> 

ABS

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