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

submitted 2 months ago by ZeroCool@slrpnk.net to c/theonion@midwest.social

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[–] knobbysideup@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Give me somebody who uses markdown with pandoc and I'll be impressed.

[–] vividspecter@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Or emacs with org-mode.

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Or writes it directly in LaTeX.

[–] vividspecter@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

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

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 3 points 2 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 2 months ago

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