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   翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 09-Dec-2024 23:03:28 JST 翠星石

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   • Reid :ablobcatattention:
   @Reiddragon Unfortunately, making proprietary degeneracy illegal won't put a stop to it, the only thing that would work if many people said no even once; https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
   
   At least the .doc format has been somewhat successfully reverse-enginerred, meaning pandoc can convert it to something useful.
   
   Personally I just open the document in libreoffice and copy-paste all of the headings into a handcrafted LaTeX document.
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     Reid :ablobcatattention: (reiddragon@fedi.reimu.info)'s status on Monday, 09-Dec-2024 23:03:29 JST Reid :ablobcatattention:

     look for degree paper templates on my university’s site find them they’re all .doc files

     this should be illegal