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When you write your academic papers in Word (aussie.zone)
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[–] riskable@programming.dev 17 points 5 months ago (6 children)

At this point I'm curious: WTF is Microsoft Word even good for? It's like the worst-in-class tool for all things word processing, page layout, typesetting, embedding other stuff into the document, and more. Why are people still torturing themselves with this garbage? Just because it's there? I mean, Wordpad is there too (though maybe not for much longer) but nobody uses that. It's also garbage but still...

[–] MadhuGururajan@programming.dev 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's the most reachable thing. Markdown feels like a toy for many (not me) and people outside of academia look at you kinkily if you suggest latex and bibtex.

[–] Laser@feddit.org 1 points 5 months ago

It's the most reachable thing. Markdown feels like a toy for many (not me)

Oh yeah. Markdown. While it does have a place, the limitations on top of my head as to why I wouldn't use it in bigger projects:

  1. There is no standard in that sense, but multiple dialects / flavors
  2. No support for stuff you might want, e.g. alphabetical ordered lists.

It's fine for when you know what output you produce, like for Lemmy or in a wiki or whatever. But once you want more control, you lack options or need to rely on non-"standard" (is there was one) solutions to somehow achieve it.

I think, as an easy, yet powerful solution, AsciiDoc is better-suited.

[–] polonius-rex@kbin.run 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

skill issue

word is fine if you know how to use it

none of its direct competitors have the same feature set, and a word processor that can give me compile time errors is not one i'm going to use with much enthusiasm

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

word is fine if you know how to use it

But most don't.
I had to rewrite the CV my job coach gave me from scratch. She's a professional and used line breaks for spacing and texts blocks for grouping. Because she didn't know about some key concepts (like frames or line height) you learn from web editing.

and a word processor that can give me compile time errors is not one i'm going to use with much enthusiasm.

That's what happened after i saved her mess (written in MS Office .docx) once in Libre Office and loaded it again. To be fair, this was the document formats fault.

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