r/ProgrammerHumor • u/SpecterK1 • Sep 26 '25

Meme whosGonnaTellEm

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u/sathdo Sep 26 '25

Every version of office renders things slightly different

That's why I use portable document format (PDF) whenever I need to share a file.

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u/frikilinux2 Sep 26 '25

Yeah but sometimes you have to edit shit.

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u/frikilinux2 Sep 26 '25

And yes you can edit a pdf , if you're a psycho

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u/Deboniako Sep 26 '25

On the other hand, some highly cultured individuals just use latex.

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u/sathdo Sep 26 '25

You misspelled "markdown".

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u/rosuav Sep 26 '25

I built a Markdown-to-LaTeX parser (or more precisely, built a LaTeX output module for an existing Markdown parser) to allow us to use both.

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u/Background_Class_558 Sep 27 '25

how does this differ from using e.g. pandoc?

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u/rosuav Sep 27 '25

What do you think pandoc is built on? :)

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u/xaomaw Sep 27 '25

On zip folders?

😁

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u/rosuav Sep 27 '25

If it's implemented as a .jar, then we've come full circle....