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Is America Ready for a President Who Can Convert a Word Document to a PDF? (thehardtimes.net)

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[-] vividspecter@lemm.ee 7 points 3 months ago

Or emacs with org-mode.

[-] leadore@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Or writes it directly in LaTeX.

[-] vividspecter@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago

Or they manually create their own typography engine using ed, the standard editor.

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

Where are you on a scale from convenient to a precursor of XML?

[-] leadore@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] Dempf@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago

I think you're looking for Emerald McS. et all, PhD.

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