> because otherwise I think it would have been Microsoft Word. No, those are formats with completely different scopes. They don't compete and are essentially n

> because otherwise I think it would have been Microsoft Word. No, those are formats with completely different scopes. They don't compete and are essentially non-interchangeable. > There was a time when papers, books, resumes, contracts, etc. almost always came as Word. There was never such a time. I mean, sure, you could (and can) send people Word/LibreOffice documents, but things that needed some reproducibility and finality [1] were distributed or published is MS-Word format - almost ever. Postscript used to be pretty popular though. [1] - Yes, PDFs can be edited too, I know.