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       WordTeX - A WYSIPCTWOTCG Typesetting Tool (2018) [video]
        
       Author : gaws
       Score  : 11 points
       Date   : 2022-07-29 17:39 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | jedberg wrote:
       | Today I learned that Word files are just zipped XML and can be
       | edited directly in a text editor if you change the extension from
       | .docx to .zip.
        
         | hyakosm wrote:
         | It's the case with .docx modern files. Older .doc files were
         | binary (memory dump).
        
       | willio58 wrote:
       | TIL latex is pronounced "laytek"
        
       | auggierose wrote:
       | The video is from Mar 29. Must be an April fool's joke. I
       | actually needed until the "double-blind study" to get it ...
        
       | jagged-chisel wrote:
       | > What You See Is Pretty Close To What Other Tools Can Get
       | 
       | This is a template for MS Word letting you "simulate" the look of
       | a LaTeX document. Use pandoc to convert to actual LaTeX source.
        
         | someweirdperson wrote:
         | All that's missing is a word-macro that hijacks the export-to-
         | pdf button to run pandoc and pdflatex.
        
         | Maursault wrote:
         | I could not know for certain, but from my experience converting
         | document formats, such as pdf to doc or html or what have you,
         | I suspect that the converted document will be quite different
         | and include quite a lot of inscrutable noise compared to a
         | document originally created in LaTeX, even if the output
         | appears similar or the same.
         | 
         | I've always been in awe of users of LaTeX because they almost
         | always have another discipline, usually academic and with years
         | if not decades behind them, yet in order to publish they
         | effectively need to _become a typesetter_ , which is an
         | entirely separate discipline in itself. Everyone else just
         | hires the professional typesetter or page designer (probably
         | provided by a commercial printer, marketing or design firm),
         | but academics don't seem to have that convenience available to
         | them. Imagine if in order to drive anywhere you had to design
         | and build your own car for every trip.
        
           | eclipticplane wrote:
           | From a friend who's a mathematics professor: "If I had to
           | fight with LaTeX to get here, my students will damned well
           | learn it, too."
        
           | pge wrote:
           | or LaTeX is a fun and nerdy distraction from their work
           | (speaking from experience here...)
        
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