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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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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Or emacs with org-mode.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Or writes it directly in LaTeX.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

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