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josuah josuah Offline | 18-01-2018, 10:40 AM | #24
Long time nixers
So in the end, simple text formats win: Easy to parse, they can be converted to whatever society come up with to publish documents.

Whatever Text Format (WTF™) -{Pandoc, Emacs, whatnot}-> LaTeX, HTML, Troff... -{pandoc, LaTeX toolsuite, web browser, GUI word processor}-> PDF, DOCX

Man pages anyone? Auto-generated man pages are rarely of an extremely good quality. I guess it might sometimes be the same for PDF and DOCX.

mandoc added -T pdf support to export pdfs that do not have anything binary (non-text), more readable, but still hard to come back to the previous format.
Whatever you choose it might be better to keep the original sources.

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Messages In This Thread
RE: Struggling to use linux in college - by jkl - 25-12-2017, 01:10 AM
RE: Struggling to use linux in college - by jkl - 25-12-2017, 12:49 PM
RE: Struggling to use linux in college - by z3bra - 26-12-2017, 08:24 AM
RE: Struggling to use linux in college - by evbo - 08-01-2018, 07:57 PM
RE: Struggling to use linux in college - by xero - 10-01-2018, 06:49 PM
RE: Struggling to use linux in college - by apk - 10-01-2018, 11:50 PM
RE: Struggling to use linux in college - by rocx - 11-01-2018, 01:30 AM
RE: Struggling to use linux in college - by resk - 11-01-2018, 05:43 AM
RE: Struggling to use linux in college - by rocx - 11-01-2018, 03:16 PM
RE: Struggling to use linux in college - by pkal - 11-01-2018, 06:23 PM
RE: Struggling to use linux in college - by z3bra - 12-01-2018, 08:18 PM
RE: Struggling to use linux in college - by mrtn - 14-01-2018, 11:23 AM
RE: Struggling to use linux in college - by mrnd - 15-01-2018, 11:01 AM
RE: Struggling to use linux in college - by xero - 17-01-2018, 01:41 PM
RE: Struggling to use linux in college - by fraun - 17-01-2018, 03:05 PM
RE: Struggling to use linux in college - by josuah - 18-01-2018, 10:40 AM
RE: Struggling to use linux in college - by fraun - 18-01-2018, 12:13 PM
RE: Struggling to use linux in college - by fraun - 29-01-2018, 11:50 AM
RE: Struggling to use linux in college - by Tmplt - 30-01-2018, 03:04 PM
RE: Struggling to use linux in college - by fraun - 06-02-2018, 08:22 AM

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