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Andrew Plato writes:
> A true professional can produce beauty from any tool.
> Only incompetent people
> blame their tools for their inability to excel. What you use to
produce a
> document should be irrelevant. The content is what matters.
I never blame the tool for content, and rarely for the appearance of
the document.
Heck, I produced my first user manual using the line editor on a
PDP-11, and consider it a work of art. But it took me *weeks* to
get that 120p sucker written, accurately xreffed/TOCed/indexed, and
looking attractive enough for people to give it a second glance.
For THAT, I blame the tool.
Kat Nagel
Artful Docster
Kat_Nagel -at- rte -dot- com
