Re: The problem with not owning the software

On 2024-12-30 00:50, -hh wrote:

On 12/29/24 3:17 PM, Carlos E.R. wrote:

On 2024-12-29 07:58, rbowman wrote:

On Sun, 29 Dec 2024 01:43:11 +0000, Ant wrote:
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What do you use to edit/create documents and spreadsheets with others?

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I don't. Anything I create is done with Vim. For external use we have tech
writers that make it pretty. My attempts to edit RFPs with LibreOffice
don't work well, so I either use Vim and reference the sections or print
relevant pages and use a pen.

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Amazing that none of you has mentioned latex. You can edit documents with vi.

 Good point.  I have friends who used to use latex quite a bit for large documents with interesting formatting needs.
 There also was Encapsulated Postscript (EPS) too...I don't know much more about it, other than MS dropped support of it after Word 5.

Me, I am aware of Latex, but I prefer LyX myself.
I have seen an engineer produce production ready math papers and complex formulas using Latex in Windows. Some process going from the Latex file to the PDF output, marking the same word on both sides.
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Cheers, Carlos.