BlueSky

Everyone who’s ever edited a document: oh there’s now a blank page at the end of this Word document, time to get rid of that!

Word: no

Everyone: please delete

Word: shan’t

Everyone: * frantically presses delete backspace delete*

Word: answer me these riddles three

  • andrew_bidlaw
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    3 months ago

    M$ Office formatting and cross-version mutations make me want to return to TXT and nothing else.

    • Lodra@programming.dev
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      3 months ago

      Markdown is my preference. It’s certainly not perfect for formatting. But it’s fantastically simple because it’s barely more than plain text. And it’ll usually look good in the end

    • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      I use Sublime Text for both code and documents.

      If I absolutely requires formatting, I slap it into Google Docs and add the absolute minimum.

      • SmoothLiquidation@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        Composing in a text document is the way to go. No point in being distracted by fonts and spacing and non printing characters. Just get it all down and then worry about formatting when you need to print it or whatever.