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.
********************************************************* Alan P. Rudy Visiting Associate Professor Dept. Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work Central Michigan University 124 Anspach Hall Mt Pleasant, MI 48858 517-881-6319
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com> wrote:
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> On Sun, 29 Mar 2009, Andy wrote:
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> What do the soc/humanities people use for large documents? The standard
>> for math/science is pretty much LaTeX
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> 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.
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>
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> Michael
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