RE: Changing progams to accommodate reviewers

["Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>]

At which point, *some* clients will go find a TW who *can* do the same
work in Word, without taking any longer and without any loss of quality.

Others, as you say, will be perfectly happy reviewing your work in PDF,
or reviewing Word docs generated using Mif2Go.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martinek, Carla
> Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 9:45 AM
> To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: Changing programs to accommodate reviewers
> 
> Oh, this is *such* a pet peeve of mine! I've run into this 
> in the past where reviewers complain, "Why can't you write 
> in Word like everyone else?" 
> 
> My standard response has been something along the lines of 
> "It's a matter of the right tools for the right job -- you 
> don't expect programmers to write elaborate code in notepad, 
> do you? Then why would you expect me to do my job in a 
> program that is not designed to handle documents of the size 
> and complexity that we're currently producing. Yes, I 
> *could* do the work in Word, but it will take a lot longer, 
> and won't be nearly as nice..."
> 

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