Moving to non-Word formats [long]

[Liam Proven]

On Tue, 16 Jun 2020 at 18:22, Doug <dmcgarrett at optonline.net> wrote:

> I have been grazing this thread, and I have to say this: if you're just
> writing code, or reminder messages to yourself, you can use any format
> you wnat, but if you're writing for someone else to read, and perhaps
> to publish, whether you like it or not, WORD is the format they expect,
> so use it. I save everything in .doc (1997-2003) format, because
> everyone in the world can read it and work with it. Like it or not, WORD
> is here to stay! (And use Windows EXTREMELY seldom!)

Exactly so.

In my previous comment I meant to cite this:

https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2014/10/21/escape-microsoft-word/

It's an interesting essay. The author maintains these pages:
http://www.xwp8users.com/

One of these days, I must continue my investigations into repackaging
the free version of WordPerfect 8 for Linux in a containerised format
so it can run on modern distros...

Any help much appreciated!

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