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   powersoffour (powersoffour@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2024 04:59:57 JST powersoffour

   So many word documents I have to edit are, broadly speaking, big chunks of text wrapped in lots and lots of very specific formatting, and handed to me by others. It would be so nice if I had an easy way of just typing text into them using whatever editor, and not having to worry that a few stray clicks, or a mistake in saving, would mess up the formatting or the document as a whole.

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     powersoffour (powersoffour@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2024 05:47:12 JST powersoffour

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     • Peter Williams

     @pkgw a perfect dream

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     Peter Williams (pkgw@mastodon.world)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2024 05:47:15 JST Peter Williams

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     @powersoffour I have a dream, which is probably extremely dumb, that one day normal people will actually use TeX for this kind of stuff. We are, uh, not there yet, to say the least.

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     powersoffour (powersoffour@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2024 07:36:38 JST powersoffour

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     • Andrew Barker

     @abarker I'll give this a shot next time!

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     Andrew Barker (abarker@mast.hpc.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2024 07:36:39 JST Andrew Barker

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     • pandoc

     @powersoffour it works less well for documents from others that you want to edit, but if I'm creating it I always write it in markdown and use @pandoc to convert it to Word using one of several templates I have for different audiences.