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I have to say, I sympathize with them. I tried libreoffice, but I just could not keep it up. MS Word is annoying enough for me, LibreOffice adds that extra anno
by kghose 14y ago
I have to say, I sympathize with them. I tried libreoffice, but I just could not keep it up. MS Word is annoying enough for me, LibreOffice adds that extra annoyance. I just wish we could move to a markup system like markdown or restructured text with split editors that generate the document on the fly on a different pane. Plain text! Plain text!
- stevoski 14y agoThat sounds like reverting to the style of much older word processing software such as WordStar.
- GrumpySimon 14y agoI've been doing all my editing in plain text (vim if you must know) for about 6 months. Then I use the wonderful PanDoc [1] to convert it to anything I need (usually PDF, sometimes .docx). Everything's much simpler and much more peaceful. [1] http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/ http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/
- smutticus 14y agoIf you use a Mac I cannot recommend OmmWriter enough. http://www.ommwriter.com/ http://www.ommwriter.com/
- maguay 14y agoOmmWriter is on Windows too, and is especially great there since there's a dearth of plain writing apps on PCs.
- takluyver 14y agoHave you seen ReText? It's precisely the sort of split editor you're talking about.
- kghose 14y agoThanks! I was more lamenting for wide adoption! Myself, plain old LaTeX is good enough, but my collaborators get anxious having to markup pdf...