Once you've tried VIM, you'll never go back.
Mostly because you won't be able to exit VIM.
I would use word for this, but I can’t close vim. I guess I’m learning LaTeX.
:term your way to freedom
Send help, I ran :term vim, now I'm double stuck
Last night, I was talking to my brother - who's a mathematician by trade - and learned the following from him:
LaTeX is Leslie Lamport's (hence La) macro package on top of TeX.
I've never used it, but for around fifteen years I've been working around people who do ... And yet I never knew that.
Use LibreOffice
LibreOffice is as good as Word. Which sadly means there are still no really good document editors out there.
Yeah but it's free.
Also there may be no good document editors but there is a good typesetting language.
I used LibreOffice Writer for my coursework the past semester, and when I used my spouse’s Windows computer to double check the images were correctly placed before submitting a paper they were on completely different pages. This was when I saved it as a .docx, because the only two options accepted were .docx or pdf. I wound up doing everything as a pdf if I needed images, but I think LibreOffice doesn’t have a save as pdf option? Or if it did I missed it, I just used Google Docs to save it as a pdf.
IIRC you have to use the "Export as" option instead of the "Save as" for a .pdf file.
Good to know, at the time my brain was absolutely fried so it doesn’t surprise me that I missed it, lol
LibreOffice has a native export to PDF. And, if you use (almost) any Linux, you have a PDF printer included.
People aren't paying for Word, they're paying for Excel and getting all the other goodies included.
Yeah, LibreOffice is fine for home use, maybe even really small businesses that don't have to trade spread sheets with external customers, but Excel is the killer app.
Calc's a fine spread sheet program, but it's frustrating as hell after using Excel for 30+ years. You can't trust that it will properly import an Excel sheet and it sure won't do macros.
100% for real. I simply can't do freelancing Excel work with LibreOffice because I know the 1:1 compatibility falls apart quickly. Basic formulas are about as far as I can trust it.
I got so frustrated trying to use Word to write a document at work that I just gave up and wrote the whole damn thing in LaTeX. Lots of nested bulleted lists (or worse, numbered lists) and Word do not play nicely.
Sucks to be the guy who has to edit it when I'm gone.
Word is the proof that God exists and he's still real fuckin' pissy about that apple.
To be fair PDFs are not meant to be edited (especially not by Word). PDFs are the product not the source. It's like trying to "edit" the ingredients of a cake after it's finished. You don't edit the cake, you edit the recipe and make a new cake.
And yet... libreoffice does it pretty ok
I edit PDFs all the time for work. It's a pain in the ass, but perfectly doable. Trying to prevent people from editing files by making it annoying is not in any way a sane strategy.
As said it's possible to edit PDFs but of cause it's a pain in the ass because that format doesn't have a lot of semantics information about the original source. PDF doesn't understand how to reflow text to the next line.
It's a bit like having a Photoshop file with many layers, saving the image as PNG, sending that PNG to someone else, they open it in Photoshop and than complain about why Photoshop is trying to prevent the PNG from being edited.
You can edit the PNG but it's a pain in the ass because the original layer information is lost. Same with PDF. Nobody ever tried to prevent anyone from trying to edit PDFs but of it's more that fixing some minor typo is certainly is a pain in the ass because thats not what this format was designed to do.
As someone that recalls using Word 5.5 in DOS for a book report in 5th grade, as with all things, the peak has come and gone.
IMO, the enshittification curve started about 2010ish when MS demanded internet connectivity for features that didn't work. Saving PDFs was its peak. RIP Word 2007, which I used well into 2015.
expecting word to edit pdfs is like expecting excel to edit compiled matlab programs
Also I don't see the problem with the other two.
Move image? Works fine if you select the right wrapping.
Ignore spelling mistake? Right click -> ignore once / ignore all / add to dictionary
Those without tech literacy love to blame the software.
A bad workman blames his tools after all.
Used Microsoft Works in the early 2000's. Only discontinued in 2009 apparently.
At one point, Microsoft was maintaining three different word processors.
My favourite feature is the insanely counter-intuitive indenting and bullet points.
LaTeX supremacy has entered that chat
Overfull hbox has left the chat un formatted
This why LibreOffice called out Microsoft for using "complex" file formats to lock in Office users
You using complex file formats for vendor lock in
Me using complex file formats because my code base is shite.
We are not the same
Editing PDFs is not a feature the format natively supports (or supported?).
To me the crappiest "feature" is that M$ intentionally disregards their own document standard to EEE the ecosystem and vendor-lock their consumers.
Want to edit the header just on page 6? Or feel like being sexy and having a single page in landscape or a different size?
Easy! Just make a bunch of separate documents, export them as PDFs, and merge them in Adobe Acrobat.
TGFM - Thank God for Markdown
Seriously, though. 9 times out of 10, markdown has all the formatting I need for the task at hand. On the rare occasion I need something more, I’m glad I have access to Apple Pages, but it comes with its own set of unique challenges.
I wish Markdown had better support for tables.
I expected Lemmy to be less repost-obsessed than Reddit yet here we are.
Microsoft office is why I use iWork.
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