747Is America Ready for a President Who Can Convert a Word Document to a PDF?(thehardtimes.net)posted 4 days ago byZeroCool@slrpnk.netin theonion@midwest.socialView comments62 commentssavehidereportSort:HotTopControversialNewOldYou are viewing a single thread.View all comments View context [ +- ]leadore@lemmy.world6 points4 days agoOr writes it directly in LaTeX. permalinksavereportparentreply[ +- ]vividspecter@lemm.ee4 points4 days agoOr they manually create their own typography engine using ed, the standard editor. permalinksavereportparentreply[ +- ]MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml1 point4 days agoWhere are you on a scale from convenient to a precursor of XML? permalinksavereportparentreply[ +- ]leadore@lemmy.world3 points3 days agoPersonally I write in org mode and export to LaTeX/pdf from there, so I’m at the convenience end of the scale, and the resulting file is probably less than a tenth the size of what someone would get from saving to pdf from Word. permalinksavereportparentreply