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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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vividspecter@lemm.ee
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Or emacs with org-mode.

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leadore@lemmy.world
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Or writes it directly in LaTeX.

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vividspecter@lemm.ee
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Or they manually create their own typography engine using ed, the standard editor.

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MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml
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Where are you on a scale from convenient to a precursor of XML?

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leadore@lemmy.world
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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.

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Dempf@lemmy.zip
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I think you’re looking for Emerald McS. et all, PhD.

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