atw: Re: OT Writing tools

My experience is the same as Bob's. Even professional people who in 
effect produce business documents for a living struggle with Word, 
as if in a battle of wills in which there can be only one winner. 
Each paragraph and list item is shoved into line by repetitive 
application of the Tab key and the indent, numbering and bullets 
buttons. 

The result is a document that looks mostly as the author intended, 
but which can't ever be updated or combined with other documents. 

> Basically the world needs a word processor with about the 
> same range of options that you get in an on-line HTML editor. 

Christine, I agree that this is what the world needs but it's not 
what the world *wants*. 90% of business users would be better off 
with MS Works or an editor like the one in their e-mail client or 
wiki software. But try to enforce this and you'll have a riot on 
your hands. 

Stuart

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