Charlie StrossMay 20

Welp, I have just cancelled my Microsoft Office 365 recurring subscription.

Two reasons.

1. I only ever use it to check tracked changes to the copy edits on novels—once a year—which my publishers process in Word. As of this month, LibreOffice is good enough for the job (just tested at book length).

2. CoPilot in Office would open me up to accusations of breach of contract—my book contracts warrant that they're all my own work: CoPilot brings that into question.

So good riddance to Office365!

Show threadMichael Lucas May 20

@cstross

I'm testing LO for highly formatted tech ebooks, and rocketing towards that same decision at ~.7C.

Show threadgemelenMay 20
@mwl @cstross
Not sure it's that much relevant, but LaTeX support in the LibreOffice helped me to go through the uni years as an applied mathematics student without ever touching MS Word and MathType or equivalents. 20 years ago already.
So, I highly recommend grasping it for whatever challenge of writing and editing you have. Maybe it'd be even easier to use than you think.
Show threadSimon Richter

@gemelen @mwl @cstross I use LyX most of the time, that's at an interesting intersection — text only with out-of-band markup like an office suite, but layout is done with LaTeX, and they will not predict hyphenation, line or page breaks and instead fit the text into the window.

Super useful because you can use a font size and window width that is convenient, there's no horizontal scrolling and it has no effect on the output.

May 21 at 1:23pmWeb