[lbo-talk] software question

Andy andy274 at gmail.com
Sun Mar 29 08:49:09 PDT 2009


On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 11:07 PM, JC Helary <brandelune at gmail.com> wrote:


> The only reason people would want to upgrade to Office 2008 is because it
> has become reasonably less unstable and slightly faster than Office 2004 on
> Intel machines (I don't know for PPCs).
>
> But it is still mostly unusable for large structured documents.

What do the soc/humanities people use for large documents? The standard for math/science is pretty much LaTeX, though I've seen linguistics packages for it since it handles standardized funny characters and formatting very nicely.

-- Andy



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