grain of salt taken. And no, you weren't really helpful
. It sounds like, as a designer, you're more concerned with the formatting and pagemaking aspects of the programs you're using. Universe on course.
I'm more into straight-up text content, and care less about being able to infinitely scale the thing than being able to negotiate a several-hundred-page document quickly, the way I'm used to doing. I appreciate WP is NOT what you want to be using if you're trying to make really elegant-looking, well-arranged pages. What I like about it is the way it works to make a big hunk of text. I like being able to have three or four drafts stack themselves side-by-side at a keystroke, or zip my way smoothly through half a book with cmnd-up/dn. The dottedlinepagebreaks that can make formatting difficult for you, really help me by keeping the document I'm seeing on the screen as I work whole and unified. The couple inches of blank space that Word or similar can make in the middle of a paragraph tends to throw me off. I like seeing a book appear in an unbroken ribbon, while still knowing where the page breaks will end up.
I'm glad you've found a program you're so happy with. If you think InDesign (Adobe, yes?) has functionality that I'm looking for, I'd be interested to check it out. In the meantime, I think I'm going to settle for Nisus Writer Express in draft mode, supplemented by Copywrite and Stickies.
