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How big do you think the intersection is of people who can use git and people who want to use Microsoft Word?
by torrent-of-ions 9y ago
How big do you think the intersection is of people who can use git and people who want to use Microsoft Word?
- thearn4 9y agoWant to? Near zero. Have to? Maybe a bit larger, hard to say. As much as I hate having to work in Word for small things that could so easily be a plain-text format, the versioning system within Word isn't exactly the worst thing ever.
- trankas 9y agoAs enterprises seem to take up using git, this is probably a ton better than storing Word docs in git, I think. So not so few people :-)
- tehlike 9y agoi am also thinking office 360 and google docs will be taking up its space? I like the idea, let's see how it plays out.
- titanix2 9y agoIt includes at least me :) I switched to Latex for writing my second master thesis because I wanted to use version control but Word is far more easier to deal with when the document include unicode character outside the BMP. So I really wanted Word + git from that time. Also when collaborating for writing a paper with Word, version control can be a huge help.
- TrickyRick 9y agoWhy not use something like Google docs or office 365 then?
- emodendroket 9y agoWord has way more features than GDocs. Haven't spent time with O365 but as far as I know half the draw is you can use it with Office.
- gjjrfcbugxbhf 9y agoDid you ever try Xelatex? I think it has support for arbitrary utf8 characters. Also for your system's built in fonts fallbacks is a character is missing from a font.
- ellius 9y agoI could recommend this for something like bank compliance. We're stuck with Word and have a largely non-technical staff, but could dramatically improve our performance if our documents were version controlled. If I were OP I would look banks as a launch point.
- emodendroket 9y agoI love Word.
- TickleSteve 9y agoSignificant. Most engineering firms (web dev << the development world) have a need for proper documentation, and LibreOffice generally won't cut it either.
- jessaustin 9y agoOne would expect an engineering firm to be able to set up doc conversion for the special people who need "proper documentation" and consider Word to be at all related to that. Every "document" I've ever gotten from an engineer has been a PDF, which should work even for special people.
- TickleSteve 9y agoin over 20 years crossing around 10 different companies, all documentation produced has been in Word format... never a single exception other than simple text files for extremely minor stuff. Word rules the world... love it or hate it, its the truth.