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Learn word. It's still best in class. Or LibreOffice. Depending on the type of manuscript, Dryad or celtx. Of course, I don't know your workflow.
by throwawayfinal 9y ago
Learn word. It's still best in class.
Or LibreOffice. Depending on the type of manuscript, Dryad or celtx.
Of course, I don't know your workflow.
- lostgame 9y agoBetter yet, don't upgrade. MacOS upgrades seem to just be getting worse and worse.
- epistasis 9y agoYikes, Word on macOS is certainly nowhere near best in class. It's a completely buggy heap of trash, as soon as numbered styles, images, or tables of contents become important. On the plus side, Word doesn't crash as much as Excel on macOS does for me. Pages, Numbers, and Keynote are far better on macOS than their respective MS apps in my experience. If I had to use Word for anything except the most simple documents, I'd probably run it in a VM.
- swdunlop 9y agoHopefully, that will change in 16.9.0 with Office for Mac sharing a codebase with Office for Windows: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/office-for-mac-finally-has-real-time-collaboration-in-16-9-0-update/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/office-for-mac-final...
- brazzledazzle 9y agoIs this with Office 2016? Almost sounds like the 2011 version. I'd say it's a resource hog but it doesn't seem particularly buggy.
- graeme 9y agoI tried word on macos. I recall there were some issues which made it harder. Though, I would like to use it, as Microsoft will support it until the end of time. I may simply switch to a markdown template. I used to use Pages for book publishing and copying to html, but the books have become less important.
- m_mueller 9y agosidenote: Pages indeed creates some of the best html of any Wysiwyg I've looked at.
- graeme 9y agoIt's astonishingly good. It's why I'm thinking of markdown as a replacement: I know Markdown converts to html. Other editors - not so much. It was a lucky accident for me that Pages worked for converting my books to html.
- mrmondo 9y agoWord is truly dreadful, not just to use but the code it generates in each document is a mess, it’s no wonder there’s so many formatting problems in docx files.