but if you suggest that _other_ people use ms-word, or that it be made integral to a _digitization_system_, i will ridicule your suggestion, because it deserves it.
Most people have an ms-word processor, or similar word processor such as OO on their machines. It would be silly to try to tell them not to use it, if they know it and are comfortable with it. It would also be silly not to acknowledge the weaknesses of such tools -- such as the garbage HTML that ms-word generates. It is the notion and PG or DP can or somehow should "dictate" the entire tool chain, rather than contributing to and strengthening the weak links in that tool chain, that is deserving of ridicule. But, BB continues to use ridicule and other forms of Machiavellian rhetoric as an excuse to avoid serious and honest debate of his ideas, and other's ideas, on their merits.