Is America Ready for a President Who Can Convert a Word Document to a PDF?
Is America Ready for a President Who Can Convert a Word Document to a PDF?
America's expectations for its leaders have always been low. We've had presidents who needed help with basic tech, and we were okay with it. But now, we face a terrifying prospect: a leader who might know how to convert a Word document to a PDF.
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Give me somebody who uses markdown with pandoc and I'll be impressed.
Or emacs with org-mode.
Or writes it directly in LaTeX.
Or they manually create their own typography engine using ed, the standard editor.
Where are you on a scale from convenient to a precursor of XML?
Personally I write in org mode and export to LaTeX/pdf from there, so I'm at the convenience end of the scale, and the resulting file is probably less than a tenth the size of what someone would get from saving to pdf from Word.
I think you're looking for Emerald McS. et all, PhD.