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Re:Pandoc by chaxor on Friday February 02, 2024 @11:26AM (#39230525)
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.
Re:Pandoc by criddell on Friday February 02, 2024 @01:53PM (#39232631)
There is a free web version of Word that is pretty good.
Re:Pandoc by chaxor on Friday February 02, 2024 @03:33PM (#39233942)
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).
Re:Pandoc by criddell on Friday February 02, 2024 @03:46PM (#39234101)
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.

Re:Pandoc by ashton314 on Friday February 02, 2024 @02:04PM (#39232772)
You lost me at “web”. Local-first is so much nicer for my workflow—and I am sure this holds for most other people.
Re:Pandoc by criddell on Friday February 02, 2024 @02:56PM (#39233374)
The person I responded to uses Google Docs.
Re:Pandoc by dredmorbius on Friday February 02, 2024 @10:15PM (#39237237)
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.

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Re:Pandoc by yashrk on Saturday February 03, 2024 @04:36AM (#39238842)
Do you mean a Word from Office360?

From my experience Word from Office360 breaks complex formatting of desktop Word document even worse, than LibreOffice/Google Docs does.