I just want to type!
So do I… So do I… And this is the impetus for this entry: how should we be doing technical documents?
MS Word
It works. It works? It works! I’m currently editing a document that I did not create. The person who created this document is submitting this document on A4 paper. There are a lot of tables and figures. It’s a dissertation. I know, I know. I love working on dissertations so much that I started working on another one! Ha, ha, but yes and no. I love helping graduate students. And I get working with MS Word.
Figures and tables
That being said. I am in the delightful throes of working with figures and tables in MS Word. It is a special kind of madness. Throw in track changes and wowza. Like Depeche Mode said, “things get damaged”*.
*I know this song is not about MS Word. Great song and great lyrics.