[HN Gopher] WordTeX - A WYSIPCTWOTCG Typesetting Tool (2018) [vi... ___________________________________________________________________ WordTeX - A WYSIPCTWOTCG Typesetting Tool (2018) [video] Author : gaws Score : 11 points Date : 2022-07-29 17:39 UTC (1 days ago) (HTM) web link (www.youtube.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.youtube.com) | 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...) ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-07-30 23:00 UTC)