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ZeroCool@slrpnk.net to The Onion@midwest.socialEnglish · 8 months ago

Is America Ready for a President Who Can Convert a Word Document to a PDF?

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Is America Ready for a President Who Can Convert a Word Document to a PDF?

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ZeroCool@slrpnk.net to The Onion@midwest.socialEnglish · 8 months ago
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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.

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      Or emacs with org-mode.

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        Or writes it directly in LaTeX.

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          Or they manually create their own typography engine using ed, the standard editor.

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          Where are you on a scale from convenient to a precursor of XML?

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            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.

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        I think you’re looking for Emerald McS. et all, PhD.

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