ZeroCool@slrpnk.net to The Onion@midwest.socialEnglish · 2 months agoIs America Ready for a President Who Can Convert a Word Document to a PDF?thehardtimes.netexternal-linkmessage-square63fedilinkarrow-up1758arrow-down114
arrow-up1744arrow-down1external-linkIs America Ready for a President Who Can Convert a Word Document to a PDF?thehardtimes.netZeroCool@slrpnk.net to The Onion@midwest.socialEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square63fedilink
minus-squareleadore@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 months agoOr writes it directly in LaTeX.
minus-squarevividspecter@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months agoOr they manually create their own typography engine using ed, the standard editor.
minus-squareMonkderVierte@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoWhere are you on a scale from convenient to a precursor of XML?
minus-squareleadore@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoPersonally 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.
minus-squareDempf@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoI think you’re looking for Emerald McS. et all, PhD.
Or emacs with org-mode.
Or writes it directly in LaTeX.
Or they manually create their own typography engine using ed, the standard editor.
Where are you on a scale from convenient to a precursor of XML?
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.
I think you’re looking for Emerald McS. et all, PhD.