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From: Ahem A Rivets Shot
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2018 16:32

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On Sun, 18 Mar 2018 16:20:21 +0100
Andreas Eder <a_ede...@web.de> wrote:

> On Sa 17 Mär 2018 at 15:18, Ahem A Rivet's Shot <ste...@eircom.net> wrote:
> 
> > 	Personally I have always preferred using a separate text editor
> > and formatter with some kind of markup over using a wsinqwyg word
> > processor, they fight back far less painfully, scale way better and can
> > easily be used with version control systems, database extracts ...
> 
> True enough, but tell that to zhe unwashed masses. :-)

	The one time I succeeded in doing so our documentalist went from
swearing at Word and falling ever further behind on our own documentation to
using docbook-xml and being so far ahead she was touting for business from
other groups.

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