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"To create this file, I used Pandoc again, this time to convert the Markdown files to ODT (OpenDocument Text), which can be read by LibreOffice." Ouch. WYSIWYG
by garaetjjte 10y ago
"To create this file, I used Pandoc again, this time to convert the Markdown files to ODT (OpenDocument Text), which can be read by LibreOffice."
Ouch. WYSIWYGs are terrible.
- talideon 10y ago...but necessary as publishers deal with .doc, .docx, and .odt files almost exclusively, especially when it comes to fiction.
- reidrac 10y agoI think he says he changed styles only, which is closer to the WYSIWYM ("what you see is what you mean") idea used by Lyx, for example. I agree that WYSIWYG type of editors are terrible, specially for big documents, but limiting them to the use of styles, is manageable (in my experience at least).