Comment on Laboratory note book for my new research group
illusionist@lemmy.zip 6 days agoI feel you. Using word is like going backwards.
Especially technical docs should never be in word. Converting markdown to html is so easy but I get where you are.
Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
The code snippets are the worst part. God forbid I ever have to update them because I have to manually indent every line in them correctly
illusionist@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
Oh shit. I’d try pandoc md to docx conversion. No idea if it works for your case
Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
Unfortunately not because the word document is meant to be the “master” document. We aren’t even supposed to export PDF versions because in the future people may see the PDF in the folder and use that as a reference instead of the main word document even though the word doc was updated and the PDF wasn’t. Also I tried pandoc md conversion to docx in the past for another document and it didn’t go very well. The formatting of the headers was all over the place which made it impossible to generate the Table of Contents in word
illusionist@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
Ok, sounds not so good. What about only using the converson for the snippets?