[lbo-talk] software question

Alan Rudy alan.rudy at gmail.com
Sun Mar 29 11:02:00 PDT 2009


Michael: IME, the overwhelming majorit of soc/humanity people don't even know how to make the automatic TOC work in Word.

Alan: Yer right, though ToC is a complete piece of cake... indexing's not even all that hard, I've done two books by alphabetizing everything, chopping away to get down to the essential key terms (and a few of their variants) and then searching.

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On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com> wrote:


>
> On Sun, 29 Mar 2009, Andy wrote:
>
> What do the soc/humanities people use for large documents? The standard
>> for math/science is pretty much LaTeX
>>
>
> The most common program by far (95%) for soc/humanities books is Word.
> Generally (with many exceptions, of course) math/science people relate to a
> computer as if it were a tool bench to be modified. Soc/humanity people
> relate to computers like they do to a car. They don't rent a new one or
> rebuild the engine just to make a long trip more efficiently. They accept
> all annoyances as unavoidable and something to whine fruitlessly about or
> fix through kludges.
>
>
>
> Michael
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