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0 pointseinhverfr12y ago0 comments

Exactly. I use LaTeX for almost everything that most people use Word or Powerpoint for. Yes, with vim and makefiles. There is no matching my productivity there in a word processor.

And I use Gnumeric (and assume you do too) because of the latex export function.

If Microsoft wants my business back, having really good LaTeX export from every MS Office program would be the place to start, along with native Linux clients.

What? They won't do that?

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dragontamer12y ago· 1 in thread

I use Gnumeric because its one of the most reliable spreadsheet programs on Linux. Its simply a high quality piece of work, and I've had no issues with it.

MS Word however, will forever be incompatible with the notions of LaTeX. It solves a different problem than LaTeX anyway. An export tool would be nice though.

einhverfrOP12y ago

> It solves a different problem than LaTeX anyway.

There's a fair bit of overlap though. I know people who typeset books with Word :-(

kevincrane12y ago

"What? They won't do that?"

Why would they? Latex is garbage to 90% of the normal human beings they're trying to sell to. I finally learned it for a comp models class a year or two ago and I have no intentions of ever touching it again. I use Libre Office now but given all the incompatibilities with the rest of the world, I'd use Word if it worked on Linux.

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