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Yabbut, if the client was like that, they wouldn't be contracting the work. Right?
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Completely depends.
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Maths is a hard problem, and not many tools can even handle MathML:
https://indesign.uservoice.com/forum...mathml-support
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Nope, you're just addicted to Open Source and you have that mindset that anything NOT OS = "eeevil." But I love ya anyway.
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Proprietary tools can go suck it. :P
There are only very few that are the top of their game, and I will begrudgingly allow within my workflows, but they would have to jump a very high bar before I consider them (Toxaris's EPUBTools for DOCX cleanup is one).
Side Note: Did you see Microsoft got rid of full-license purchase of Microsoft Office 2019??? Now you
have to pay monthly/yearly fees!
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It's always something. And if you think about it, all this customization, etc.--what's the upside to it? That the client can do the work themselves? (And not pay you, the originator and creator of this out-of-the-box system?)
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Those darned spreadsheets putting our slide-rule-operators out of business. :P
What's the purpose of any automation and efficiency gains?
In IT, you automate everything so you don't run into the issues in the first place, the entire place runs like a well-oiled machine. Things that took hours/minutes now take a button press. Uptime trends towards 99.999+%.
And there's always going to be those newer edge-cases:
I teach everyone I work with about Styles? I just saved myself (and them) tons of headaches, and now they need me for higher-level Problem X instead of (monotonous, horribly boring, "Enter-at-the-end-of-every-line" cleanup).
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Indeed. (What are you doing up at what, nearly 3? You're getting as bad as I am with the "no sleep" thing....)
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Thought you knew I'm a night owl.
That's something else I have to automate away, sleep!
