Technological advantages over Linux

[Jerry]

On Sat, 15 Feb 2020 23:15:08 +0000, Steve O'Hara-Smith stated:
>	More so in the data centre than on the desktop, but even there
>	I'd
>far rather write a document in troff or LaTeX than do battle with Word.
>Back in the mid 1980s I set a thousand page reference book using a
>database query feeding troff on an 80286 Xenix machine. Try doing that
>with MS Office on a modern desktop that has more than a thousand times
>as much memory and processing power as that Xenix machine had.

I use LaTeX (MiKTeX + TeXstudio) on a Win 10 machine because I got sick
and tired of trying to get my printer to work correctly with FreeBSD. I
just gave up completely with the scanner and copy functions.

The largest document I have tried using with a current version of MS
Word is only approximately 400 pages. Many times I will write
documents via LaTeX and create a PDF file. Unfortunately, because so
much of my work has to be shared among several users, and LaTeX does
not offer a suitable way of having a multitude of users edit a document
for review, with each edit being kept isolated from the final
document, I usually have to write the document with MS Word. I guess it
all depends on your audience.

For the record, I know that there are supposed to be packages that
allow something similar to the multi-user editing style used in MS Word,
but I have not found them practical, especially since the intended
audience would also need to have LaTeX installed and that is just not
going to happen. For the record, my current version of MS Word is
16.0.x.

-- 
Jerry
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