Fwd: [ISTC_D] Re: Book about gaining expertise in Word 2007?

["David J. B. Hollis" <dhollis@AandOConsultancy.ltd.uk>]

Interesting comments concerning Word 2007.

Possible anecdotal support for 'DITA for Standards'?

Certainly useful for SWOT Analyses.

David


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> From: Lionel Browne <lionel.browne@sfep.net>
> Date: 13 November 2008 12:13:29 GMT
> To: ISTC_Discussion@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [ISTC_D] Re: Book about gaining expertise in Word 2007?
> Reply-To: ISTC_Discussion@yahoogroups.com
>
> In message
> <9AEC5F50BD7E0F48891AE45ADC56118402BA8006@ldnukms2.caplin.com>, John
> Evans <john.evans@caplin.com> writes
>> Therein lies the problem with Word. It has grown and grown and grown
>> over the years and now Microsoft have lost the plot. They just don't
>> know where to position it any more.
>
> And it has become of decreasing use to those of us who have to use  
> it as
> a working tool. Consider, for example, the following, from _European
> Science Editing_, Vol. 33 (3), August 2007, p 87:
>
> Manuscripts and revisions submitted in the latest Microsoft format,  
> Word
> 2007, are being returned by many scholarly publishers because they are
> incompatible with their publishing systems. Top ranking science
> journals, including Science and Nature, have revised their guidelines,
> asking authors not to use the format because the equation editor in  
> Word
> 2007 is non-standard. Saving files in a previous Word format converts
> equations into non-editable graphics. Science suggests using the
> MathType equation editor or the editors that are included in previous
> versions of Word, accessed from Insert Object in the Insert menu.
>
> See
> www.sciencemag.org/about/authors/prep/docx.dtl
> www.nature.com/nature/authors/submissions/template/index.html
>
> Lionel
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> Lionel Browne MA MISTC; Advanced Member, Society for Editors and  
> Proofreaders;
> Member, European Association of Science Editors <lionel.browne@sfep.net 
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