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LaTeX and Org mode are much better and more usable than either Office or OpenOffice for me. I haven't needed to do more than copy-paste into Office documents fo
by Tenobrus 9y ago
LaTeX and Org mode are much better and more usable than either Office or OpenOffice for me. I haven't needed to do more than copy-paste into Office documents for the last 4 years. Of course, that's not at all relevant for general market share, but there are viable alternatives depending on how technical you are and your exact needs/restrictions/use-cases.
- felipelemos 9y agoBut the issue here is monopoly. Or do you really think that LaTeX will somehow gain any market share from Microsoft?
- qznc 9y agoHow do you open docx and pptx files other people send you with LaTeX and Org mode? ;)
- sandov 9y agoSending docx and pptx files, expecting the receiver to be able to open them is wrong, not OP's fault.
- ufmace 9y agoYou might be right in a certain philosophical sense, but you're also cut off from communications with 98% of the business world with that attitude.
- _-david-_ 9y agoYou could probably use something like pandoc (http://pandoc.org/ http://pandoc.org/) for the docx. Not sure how well it works though. Not sure what to do about pptx.