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jnxuw

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    Comment #16411461

    > I didn't say that. Like, not even close, where did you get that from? In fact I haven't noticed a single improvement in Word since 2007 except the installer. I have /taught/ MS W…

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    Comment #16407171

    > And point #1 is a complete straw man, setting up a TeX env takes 20 minutes and the basic doc format has not changed since the 1990s at least. Well, I had to re-encode my documen…

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    Comment #16407151

    In addition to the other comments, being able to use version control on software documentation is a critical ability. If you develop software without a distributed version control …

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    Comment #16407099

    Ah, and to add, if one wants to try re-formatting a Word document in LaTeX: One can import the word format to AbiWord, and export it to LaTeX. It will probably need a bit of clean-…

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    Comment #16407062

    That's very easy by using the minted package, and even in Debian, it is installed by default: \begin{minted}{python} def square(x): return x * x \end{minted} Does not look difficul…

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    Comment #16407009

    LaTeX uses a different strategy where WYSIWYG is no advantage. The markup commands tell the computer about the logical structure of the text. This is not possible in a WYSIWYG syst…