[geeks] New Tech Schools: Digital Harbor in Baltimore

[Phil Stracchino]

Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> If people learn (or are taught) to use their tools -well-, they can
> produce easily-managed useful output with even tools as mediocre as
> Microsoft Word.  Before I learned LaTeX[0], I did a couple of 100+ page
> technical manuals in Microsoft Word (version 6 for NT) and did the
> layout for my high school newspaper in it.

When I was in college, I wrote a 300-page book with it.  Later versions
still had the features that made doing it so easy, but amidst the
continued bloating of the interface, they were more obscure and harder
to get at.



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