I feel that. Markdown just does what I want better. Someday if I ever have to write a lot for work I’ll actually learn LaTeX, but I just didn’t have the energy to give it the effort it deserved in college
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Katana314@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
One time a very large, very important word file had a phantom page break that couldn’t be selected, and didn’t go away with backspace/delete.
I ended up opening the raw content of the docs to rip out the offender. Docx files are zip files with lots of XML data inside; I was eventually able to find the bit between the two paragraphs where the break was happening, and deleted it in notepad.
Pretty much done doing that type of task in Word now. Heck, I’ll do large documents in Markdown editors.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Rhaedas@fedia.io 2 hours ago
Markdown in the old WordPerfect 5.1 (reveal codes) was a great thing.
lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
The last piece of documentation I wrote was in Jupyter notebook. It looked a bit basic, but it felt wonderful to be in control of my software.
SavvyBeardedFish@reddthat.com 6 hours ago
Big fan of Typst these days;
Markdown-like syntax, with LaTeX typesetting, great for technical documents at least