Re:I don’t know how to count that low
by TacticalCoder on Monday October 25, 2021 @06:24PM
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> "Tom, we're all really sorry we didn't become software engineers, I guess we'll all quit our jobs and go back to college," which (rightly) made me feel like an asshole.
The problem is that MS Word kinda require you to be a software engineer to be able to use it and produce a document which does not look like a ransom letter (and even then, it doesn't look great). Word, just like Excel, are extremely complex and complicated software.
Sure, they can be used in a "simple" manner, but god forbid regular users to select something by mistake then click on the wrong button (among the myriad of buttons around).
> I discovered LaTeX + Pandoc, and it created documents that I thought looked much nicer
About any document editor or typesetting program produces documents that are better looking than Word. It's not a thought.
The problem is that MS Word kinda require you to be a software engineer to be able to use it and produce a document which does not look like a ransom letter (and even then, it doesn't look great). Word, just like Excel, are extremely complex and complicated software.
Sure, they can be used in a "simple" manner, but god forbid regular users to select something by mistake then click on the wrong button (among the myriad of buttons around).
> I discovered LaTeX + Pandoc, and it created documents that I thought looked much nicer
About any document editor or typesetting program produces documents that are better looking than Word. It's not a thought.