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In article <CxGwEv.97B@mv.mv.com> kaikow@standards.com writes:

   My concern is that Word has no way to distinguish certain commonly
   needed elements in a style. My favorite example is its inability to
   use dictionary style definitions for a numbered clause and not lose
   the capability of automagically updating the table of contents and
   using the Insert Cross Reference facility to refer to the clause's
   title.

   Many documents would have a need for three tags, one for dictionary
   style definition; another for the usual numbered clause, followed
   by a separate unnumbered paragraph; the third for a numbered clause
   without a title. Word cannot do the first and third, without losing
   the capability of updating the table of contents and using cross
   references properly.

I cannot conceive of trying to do this with a visual-structure system
like Word: if printed output is the principal goal, a
logical-structure system like LaTeX would be the natural choice. Why
make life difficult?

///Peter
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