ZeroCool@slrpnk.net to The Onion@midwest.socialEnglish · 8 days agoIs America Ready for a President Who Can Convert a Word Document to a PDF?thehardtimes.netexternal-linkmessage-square65fedilinkarrow-up1775arrow-down115
arrow-up1760arrow-down1external-linkIs America Ready for a President Who Can Convert a Word Document to a PDF?thehardtimes.netZeroCool@slrpnk.net to The Onion@midwest.socialEnglish · 8 days agomessage-square65fedilink
minus-squareBoofStroke@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·8 days agoGive me somebody who uses markdown with pandoc and I’ll be impressed.
minus-squareDempf@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 days agoI think you’re looking for Emerald McS. et all, PhD.
minus-squareleadore@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·8 days agoOr writes it directly in LaTeX.
minus-squarevividspecter@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·8 days agoOr they manually create their own typography engine using ed, the standard editor.
minus-squareMonkderVierte@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 days agoWhere are you on a scale from convenient to a precursor of XML?
minus-squareleadore@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·7 days agoPersonally I write in org mode and export to LaTeX/pdf from there, so I’m at the convenience end of the scale, and the resulting file is probably less than a tenth the size of what someone would get from saving to pdf from Word.
Give me somebody who uses markdown with pandoc and I’ll be impressed.
Or emacs with org-mode.
I think you’re looking for Emerald McS. et all, PhD.
Or writes it directly in LaTeX.
Or they manually create their own typography engine using ed, the standard editor.
Where are you on a scale from convenient to a precursor of XML?
Personally I write in org mode and export to LaTeX/pdf from there, so I’m at the convenience end of the scale, and the resulting file is probably less than a tenth the size of what someone would get from saving to pdf from Word.