Re: How to Build a Newsroom Time Machine: the All on Paper project

[Tony Chung <tonyc -at- tonychung -dot- ca>]

I agree. Cost does not equal performance. Some of the most expensive
stuff doesn't hold a candle to quick and cheap (or free) stuff that's
good. Sadly, open source is not the standard in most industries due to
the misconception that it is not widely supported.

Current beef: Red Dot CMS has a typical "paste from word" function in
it's wysiwyg editor that effectively strips out MSO tags, but adds
inline styles and extra span containers. The free TinyMCE editor that
WordPress uses strips all Word formatting and preserves only the
structures, including lists.

Sigh.

-Tony



On 2011-08-11, at 7:42 AM, Dan Goldstein <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com> wrote:

> I see a lot of newspaper errors that even Microsoft Word would catch.
> (Both of Peter's sentences below are flagged by Word's grammar checker.)
> Of course, even the best software isn't as good as a good copy editor,
> but the software they're using isn't even as good as Word.
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> Absolutely. "Spell-checked butt not proof red."
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> A good copy editor will also a sentence that is missing its verb or has
> things like this etc.
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