OT: Word processing (was: Re: IBM Acquires Rational Ada)

["Anders Wirzenius" <anders.wirzenius@pp.qnet.fi>]

"steve_H" <nma124@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:8db3d6c8.0212101850.51506572@posting.google.com...
> It takes more time to first learn Latex, few commands to learn, and more
> advanced commands, and one has to compile it and then view it. However,
> if one invests the time to learn Latex, and get all the commands right,
> then their final output will be so much better than the 'quick'
> MS Word can ever generate, and it is a great investment that will
> pay multiples over a life time. And actually with time, one will find the
> producing documents with Latex is faster.
>
> But most will not spend the few short days to learn Latex initially, (will
> get either frustrated quickly, or would not even try it as it 'looks' hard)
> and will insead spend their life producing ugly documents with MS Word.
>

A side note:
I made three files, one with a MS Notepad, one with MS Word, one with MS Excel. With each program I stored only the letter 'A'.
Using the current settings that are used in my company (just ordinary "Windows settings", no special) I got the following result:

File length in bytes:
text editor: 1
MS Word: 19456
MS Excel: 13824

This means over 10k of meta and formatting data in addition to the actual data.
The Excel file contained my name three times, the Word file only two times.

Anders