As far as I can tell, {Open|Libre)Office has better support for old m$ formats
than m$ does, but a good markup language is better than any WYSIAYG program. I
find LaTeX awkward, but use it anyways because it's easier to get what I want
using it.
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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
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Rupert Reynolds [[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2022 11:47 AM
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Subject: Re: Markup languages
I've been meaning to learn LaTex for years, but it looks very different
from other markups. I'm off to find a beginners' course now :-)
LibreOffice has the advantage of using an open standard, and being able to
save in various M$ formats, and html. Libre is sometimes used to recover
broken M$ Office files :-)
Roops
On Thu, 22 Dec 2022, 14:51 Matt Hogstrom, <[email protected]> wrote:
> Fair comments. In my travels I’ve not seen anyone use Libre Office or
> LaTeX; I’m not knocking them but if they are not widely used who will
> maintain the doc later when we all retire? When considering authoring
> docs like programs we need to consider the downstream consumers /
> maintainers so I’d go with the popular tools of today.
>
> Matt Hogstrom
> [email protected]
>
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