> what do you use to communicate with the part of the world (a majority, > unfortunately) who uses suckish formats such as .doc(x), .od[tspg] or > whatever? If Office is bloated, LibreOffice ain't slim, and people > keep sending me word documents :/
When people send me word documents, I have my mailcap set up to run catdoc or docx2txt on that shit. Similar plain text rendering exists for other file formats such as (puke) Excel. If this does not answer your question then I invite you to express it more clearly. ~ Tim
