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> In this modern age of .md and similar files why not try for "blue water sailing" and instead create an office suite which specifically plays to only open stan
by GeneralMaximus 2y ago
> In this modern age of .md and similar files why not try for "blue water sailing" and instead create an office suite which specifically plays to only open standards?
Because your publisher, professor, employer, collaborators, and book club members all want an Office file. Full stop. They will not accept anything else, and they will refuse to work with you unless you have the clout to force them to use your new format. And then they will be unhappy.
That’s what this article is getting at. If you want to replace Office, you need to have full compatibility with Office files. There’s no way around it. Most people don’t want more open, faster, more features, or better. They want Office (or increasingly, Google Docs).
- seb1204 2y agoDon't tell me a publisher is using the layout and font settings of my word document to have it printed. I can go as far that tracked changes, grammar and spelling are done while the doc is being written but once it gets serious into printing I still this a proper publishing software is used to fine tune kerning and all the other font stuff. So in saying that perfect layout by LO in MS formats is not the issue.
- WillAdams 2y agoSend your publisher a .docx file made by converting a .md using Pandoc: https://pandoc.org/ https://pandoc.org/ I used to work in publishing --- Word docs were hacked at (as noted elsethread often with track changes enabled) by editors since it was their standard tool, then they would get flowed into PageMaker, or Quark XPress, or Ventura Publisher, or Adobe InDesign --- except of course for the LaTeX docs. For .docx, the converted file is fine, so long as it has all the text and bold/italics which the author wants.