Re:Pandoc
by chaxor on Friday February 02, 2024 @11:26AM
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There are other reasons to not like Word other than 'it six's. One is availability. If you're on Linux all day, your options don't really contain word - it's not free to download and install due to needing a license.
You have to go and find some other computer that runs windows, and start it up - just for that one document. Then you have a single use computer, which obviously isn't a great experience.
Closest thing that I use is Google docs, sometimes. I (and many others like me) know how to use word (and excel) pretty well due to some life in that world. I still remember most of many of the hotkey combinations to step through the menus.
The reason I use vim for everything now is - I use vim for everything. I live in vim/tmux/ssh/tui, so most problems go there first if they can.
There are obvious benefits to the vim/git/Typst setup, if plots need to go in a document for example, but it's also strengthened by word not being easily available.
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There is a free web version of Word that is pretty good.
You mean OpenOffice? Because it's not quite the same thing. It can cause some differences in appearance for docx (though that doesn't mean much, since M$FT Word also doesn't display their own doc format consistently either).
No, OpenOffice is the Apache project that shares ancestry with LibreOffice.
I’m talking about the Microsoft product that is now sold under the Microsoft 365 Online brand.
It isn’t a perfect replacement but for the times I’ve used it, it’s been pretty good.
You lost me at “web”. Local-first is so much nicer for my workflow—and I am sure this holds for most other people.
The person I responded to uses Google Docs.
Re:Pandoc
by dredmorbius on Friday February 02, 2024 @10:15PM
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Key word, sometimes:
Closest thing that I use is Google docs, sometimes.... The reason I use vim for everything now is - I use vim for everything.