[H-GEN] Document Formatting

[Julian DeMarchi]

On 03/30/2012 10:53 AM, James C. McPherson wrote:
> 
> All the more reason why one should use a document formatting
> system/language (LaTeX ftw) to write things that large rather
> than a word processor.
> 
> Of course, if you're running FrameMaker or something simmilar
> (does anybody still do this?) because you're actually in the
> business of page layout then that's different. OTOH, if you
> _were_ in the business of page layout, you would have invested
> in a machine with a sufficient hardware configuration to run
> the application which you depend on.

The said document is a book my Mother is wirtting on family history.
What software for Windows could I look at for her if anything? She's
just a general home user, who did not even know the size of the document
_was_ 500MB, and still struggles to understand why it _is_ bad..

--julian