Allison wrote: I think this is a regional thing, at least to some extent, but it has changed a little. (I'm "primary tech nerd" for a lawyer friend, so I have the latest skinny) WP is still the common application of choice, but where most electronic documents were submitted as WordPerfect documents 3-5 years ago, PDF is now the preferred submission format. This has a lot to do with the perceived security of a PDF document, and the fact that it's mostly application-agnostic. Please note that I said _perceived_ security! I do know it's not difficult to alter a PDF. The public, for the most part, doesn't. Doc

Allison wrote: Hm. I've never understood that; one of my favorite word processors of all time was Microsoft Word for DOS (the "lotus menu" versions, not the "pull down menu" last version released). I'd never had a problem with footnotes, citations, etc. when I used it in the late 1980s. Word for DOS version 4 (and maybe 5, whichever retained the "lotus" style menus) is one of the few instances of Microsoft engineering a decent product. Sure, they lifted some elements from VISI-ON (like the "lotus" menus and crude WYSIWYG), but I've never considered an interface to be enforcable by copyright (if they were, we'd have stupid lawsuits over which shortcut keys are used for certain functions across programs, etc.). It was probably bloated by 128K (I never understood why the later versions needed 384K minimum) but it worked really well. -- Jim Leonard (trixter at oldskool.org) http://www.oldskool.org/ Want to help an ambitious games project? http://www.mobygames.com/ Or check out some trippy MindCandy at http://www.mindcandydvd.com/