On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 07:24:47PM -0400, Aaron W. Hsu wrote: > On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 12:51:32PM +0200, Kevin Michael Frick wrote: > > what do you use to communicate with the part of the world (a majority, > > unfortunately) who uses suckish formats such as .doc(x), .od[tspg] or > > whatever? If Office is bloated, LibreOffice ain't slim, and people > > keep sending me word documents :/ > > Almost my entire broader community uses LaTeX as the primary format. However, > I have noticed that most people are able and willing to use PDF as a document > interchange format for most things now. For my personal documents that need > formatting of some sort or another I tend to prefer using something like the > Heirloom Documentation Tools, which is a troff with UTF-8 and OTF support. > > So, the only real need for docx or the like formats for most people I think, > is when you actually have to collaborate on a document. In that case, I think > you're stuck with one of the larger applications that aren't very great > because you need a degree of compatibility. However, if you can use PDF, I > would use that instead, and if you can do it one better and get them to use > something like plain text, even better.
How would you collaborate on a pdf? -- Henrique N. Lengler
