Eric S Fraga <esfli...@gmail.com> writes: > On Thursday, 14 Dec 2017 at 10:11, Adonay Felipe Nogueira wrote: >> Indeed, Pandoc is a way out ;) >> >> I just would advise against converting from LaTeX to Word DOC. > > [...] > >> Relying on these formats such as DOC and DOCX only serve to >> make people more dependent on the non-free software behind these. > > I am sympathetic to these views but unfortunately it's not always > possible. My university, for instance, requires me to prepare exam > scripts in DOC (hence my related email a few minutes ago... my yearly > task of preparing scripts is upon me). I hate it but I have no choice.
Yes, to take the choise away from customer is very powerful business strategy. And a very destructive one either, as many bright minds are wasted on creating products that could not compete if not only those artificial "standards" supported not by logical reasoning, but by interests of the most powerful players. So I need to adopt DOC/DOCX in my workflow somehow. It is required by my university and by my publishers also.
