Tex wrote:
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Me too. But Markdown is crappier for:
Tables
Footnotes
Formulas
Images/Captions/Figures
Cross-references
Colors
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and quite a few other things too.
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Yes, but you hate anything that requires being paid for or subscribed to, etc. You don't "hate" Word out of some peculiar dislike of it, itself.
Saying that you understand HTML, but "hate Styles" makes no sense at all.
In my travels, for whatever it's worth, 99% of the people that I meet that talk about how they "hate" Word, or they don't like Styles, etc. have never bothered to spend even 30 minutes learning about Word, or Styles, or understanding Outline View, the Nav Pane, etc.--all the things that
genuinely make Word a power tool--and the very functions, features, menu choices, etc. that give you power over Word.
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A few months back, I stumbled upon this video for Microsoft Word:
"Word: Advanced Track changes & collaboration tricks"
The first 1:30 is all that's important, the rest is pretty junk.
I never really saw someone fiddle with the various levels of "Show Markup".
Word's Compare (or Track Changes) is actually quite good when working on books.
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For a variety of production reasons, we live and die with that level of TC detail.
Incredibly useful in a bookmaking environment in which you deal with authors. (We use a flow method, with a Word file generated by InDesign, to intake and place revisions from the authors.)
Folks can cut themselves off from Word, for philosophical reasons (Tex), tech reasons (Quoth) etc. but Word is remarkably simple and clean to use, IF, like every other damn tool, you bother to learn how to make it sing and dance.
Hitch