From Eric Fraga we have this long and screamingly funny Twitter thread about the horrors of using Word.
Why I use #Emacs with #orgmode and #LaTeX:https://t.co/jUwo8EKyT1
The whole thread is absolutely hilarious!
— éric 🇪🇺 #FBPE (@ericsfraga) November 5, 2019
I long ago wrote about my own experiences using a Word clone. It’s hard to overstate how much I hated having to use Word or any of its evil siblings. It appears from the thread that things haven’t improved much.
I’ve always had the uneasy feeling that maybe it’s just me and that no one else had these problems. But no. According those responding to the tweet, everyone has them and no one can figure out how to get a decently formatted list. I kept wondering as I was reading the tweets why, if people find it so hard to use, they don’t dump Word for a better tool. The answer, of course, is that for most people there is no other choice.
Unless you’re willing to learn Emacs/Org-mode or some other editor/Markdown and perhaps how to use Pandoc to convert your files to docx, you’re pretty much stuck. That’s too bad because it’s only increasing the rage in the world.