Group tackles OpenOffice desktop spec (News.com)

Group tackles OpenOffice desktop spec (News.com)

Sounds like an advertisement for LyX or Texmacs to me! TeX is a 20+-year-old standard with outstanding quality, reproducibility and extensibility, and a very portable implementation, and even has a few good WYSIWYG/M front-ends.

The one feature currently missing is "make a change to the middle of a very large document and see the change in an amount of time that does not depend on the size of the document". But then, no word processor has such a feature; even Word will let you work on the current paragraph, but moves larger objects and page breaks around in the background at the same time, on a timescale proportional to the length of the document. (Lyx does this in a sense, but cheats, in that you're not looking at the final product while editing.) I agree that it would be nice if one of the (La)TeX front-ends could add this... :-)

So in other words, this isn't much of a case for Word, or word processors in general for that matter.