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  • Dragan Espenschieddespens@post.lurk.org
    Jun 26, 2026, 6:49 AM

    Everyone's using MS Word, but hardly anybody can actually use it. Folks format their headings manually, manually mark their edits in some random color instead of tracking changes, chat in the document body, manually write captions under images, I've even seen manually inserted page numbers and footnotes. I don't blame anyone, Word is totally overpowered for most people. Clearly shows that Etherpad's feature set is more than enough for 99% of documents.

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  • Till Westermayer_tillwe_@mastodon.social
    Jun 26, 2026, 7:08 AM

    @despens I feel you ... but there is also the curious fact that sometimes all the fine text processing power features don't achieve the result you want, and you have to ignore them actively and use weird q&d solutions to get things done ...

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  • Dragan Espenschieddespens@post.lurk.org
    Jun 26, 2026, 9:09 AM

    @_tillwe_ …I think that's exactly what I am describing. :D For instance, users want to have footnotes and cannot figure it out, so they do them manually. 🤷

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  • Till Westermayer_tillwe_@mastodon.social
    Jun 26, 2026, 9:11 AM

    @despens Not really. My scenario: users want footnotes, know how to do it, know even how to start them new with 1 for each chapter, but something else doesn't work, so they do it manually.

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  • Adrianthgie@post.lurk.org
    Jun 26, 2026, 7:44 AM

    ```
    docx:
    pandoc -f latex -t docx $(ARTICLE).tex \
    --metadata-file=resources/metadata.yaml \
    --filter pandoc-tex-numbering \
    --output=$(ARTICLE).docx \
    --bibliography=resources/references.bib \
    --csl=resources/genesis.csl \
    --citeproc \
    --reference-doc=resources/template.docx
    ```

    @despens

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