Points taken about "Things no gender-neutral-human-personage was meant to know". Lovecraft just wouldn't have been the same.
On the docs front, may I suggest DocBook? Semantic markup rules.
Admittedly there's a bit of a learning curve, but you can forget about the presentation until you're (nearly) finished, and then generate PDF, HTML, or whatever. Then have hassles about the presentation.
There are, of course, other markup dialects, both XML-based and not. But I'm sure you know all this, and are only using Word because it's there. Given that, you could always get the content down in a text editor, and import it into Word and add the formatting later.
Sadly the vast bulk of documentation I do gets delivered to a diverse set of customers, often using their own templates. Trying to persuade them all to adopt non-word anything would be somewhat akin to drinking a pan-galactic gargle blaster, except without the lemon.
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On the docs front, may I suggest DocBook? Semantic markup rules.
Admittedly there's a bit of a learning curve, but you can forget about the presentation until you're (nearly) finished, and then generate PDF, HTML, or whatever. Then have hassles about the presentation.
There are, of course, other markup dialects, both XML-based and not. But I'm sure you know all this, and are only using Word because it's there. Given that, you could always get the content down in a text editor, and import it into Word and add the formatting later.
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