light-markup will never do everything ms-word does.
nor should it.
but typical light-markup systems these days handle
all of the features needed for the vast majority of
long-form documents which are now being produced --
books, annual reports, scientific articles, etc. --
and do it with an eye toward mounting on the web.
whereas ms-word is still stuck in a page mentality,
and creates .html output which is rather horrendous.
but i agree that ms-word is still valuable to many.
and i no longer feel it necessary to bludgeon word
for being the "de facto default" out in the world,
where everybody uses it because everybody uses it,
and nobody can use anything else because "conform".
so if someone needs one of the "does more" things
where ms-word does more, i'm glad they have word.
it's a tool in their chest, no reason to begrudge.
i'm happy, even, that word has true fans like you.
i'm also glad the rest of us can move on now to
something that we think is better. it's about time.
