Joachim Schrod writes: > MS Word is a fu**ing bad, brain-dead program. Compared to other how come so many people continue to use it? like they eat hamburgers and drink coca-cola, I suppose. > loosing), etc. Being forced to use MS Word always means to raise > project prices. oh, *thats* why its used.... > infrastructure base. No, IMNSHO XML is not usable for authors, and I > don't see this changing in the near or mid-term future. It's too > inconvenient, return on personal investment is too low, and there are > no tools in sight that will change this. a few million people use LaTeX, which is inconvenient, has a vile syntax, no interface, effectively no commercial tool support, etc. i concur with your analysis. but what now? waste more time on the varied evils of Word and LaTeX? or try to get the XML tools written? sebastian