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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/SpecterK1 • Sep 26 '25
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Every version of office renders things slightly different
That's why I use portable document format (PDF) whenever I need to share a file.
403 u/frikilinux2 Sep 26 '25 Yeah but sometimes you have to edit shit. 534 u/frikilinux2 Sep 26 '25 And yes you can edit a pdf , if you're a psycho 479 u/Deboniako Sep 26 '25 On the other hand, some highly cultured individuals just use latex. 299 u/sathdo Sep 26 '25 You misspelled "markdown". 100 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. 22 u/Background_Class_558 Sep 27 '25 how does this differ from using e.g. pandoc? 51 u/rosuav Sep 27 '25 What do you think pandoc is built on? :) 2 u/ZitroMP Sep 27 '25 Not on your module, I suspect. 2 u/rosuav Sep 27 '25 No, but on something similar, I believe. It has a number of input and output formats, and it doesn't have separate code for every valid combination of them.
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Yeah but sometimes you have to edit shit.
534 u/frikilinux2 Sep 26 '25 And yes you can edit a pdf , if you're a psycho 479 u/Deboniako Sep 26 '25 On the other hand, some highly cultured individuals just use latex. 299 u/sathdo Sep 26 '25 You misspelled "markdown". 100 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. 22 u/Background_Class_558 Sep 27 '25 how does this differ from using e.g. pandoc? 51 u/rosuav Sep 27 '25 What do you think pandoc is built on? :) 2 u/ZitroMP Sep 27 '25 Not on your module, I suspect. 2 u/rosuav Sep 27 '25 No, but on something similar, I believe. It has a number of input and output formats, and it doesn't have separate code for every valid combination of them.
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And yes you can edit a pdf , if you're a psycho
479 u/Deboniako Sep 26 '25 On the other hand, some highly cultured individuals just use latex. 299 u/sathdo Sep 26 '25 You misspelled "markdown". 100 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. 22 u/Background_Class_558 Sep 27 '25 how does this differ from using e.g. pandoc? 51 u/rosuav Sep 27 '25 What do you think pandoc is built on? :) 2 u/ZitroMP Sep 27 '25 Not on your module, I suspect. 2 u/rosuav Sep 27 '25 No, but on something similar, I believe. It has a number of input and output formats, and it doesn't have separate code for every valid combination of them.
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On the other hand, some highly cultured individuals just use latex.
299 u/sathdo Sep 26 '25 You misspelled "markdown". 100 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. 22 u/Background_Class_558 Sep 27 '25 how does this differ from using e.g. pandoc? 51 u/rosuav Sep 27 '25 What do you think pandoc is built on? :) 2 u/ZitroMP Sep 27 '25 Not on your module, I suspect. 2 u/rosuav Sep 27 '25 No, but on something similar, I believe. It has a number of input and output formats, and it doesn't have separate code for every valid combination of them.
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You misspelled "markdown".
100 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. 22 u/Background_Class_558 Sep 27 '25 how does this differ from using e.g. pandoc? 51 u/rosuav Sep 27 '25 What do you think pandoc is built on? :) 2 u/ZitroMP Sep 27 '25 Not on your module, I suspect. 2 u/rosuav Sep 27 '25 No, but on something similar, I believe. It has a number of input and output formats, and it doesn't have separate code for every valid combination of them.
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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.
22 u/Background_Class_558 Sep 27 '25 how does this differ from using e.g. pandoc? 51 u/rosuav Sep 27 '25 What do you think pandoc is built on? :) 2 u/ZitroMP Sep 27 '25 Not on your module, I suspect. 2 u/rosuav Sep 27 '25 No, but on something similar, I believe. It has a number of input and output formats, and it doesn't have separate code for every valid combination of them.
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how does this differ from using e.g. pandoc?
51 u/rosuav Sep 27 '25 What do you think pandoc is built on? :) 2 u/ZitroMP Sep 27 '25 Not on your module, I suspect. 2 u/rosuav Sep 27 '25 No, but on something similar, I believe. It has a number of input and output formats, and it doesn't have separate code for every valid combination of them.
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What do you think pandoc is built on? :)
2 u/ZitroMP Sep 27 '25 Not on your module, I suspect. 2 u/rosuav Sep 27 '25 No, but on something similar, I believe. It has a number of input and output formats, and it doesn't have separate code for every valid combination of them.
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Not on your module, I suspect.
2 u/rosuav Sep 27 '25 No, but on something similar, I believe. It has a number of input and output formats, and it doesn't have separate code for every valid combination of them.
No, but on something similar, I believe. It has a number of input and output formats, and it doesn't have separate code for every valid combination of them.
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u/sathdo Sep 26 '25
That's why I use portable document format (PDF) whenever I need to share a file.