Hi,
Quoting Dirk Eddelbuettel <[email protected]> on Tue, 3 May 2016 15:53:14 -0500:
My two daughters are in that very age bracket. The older one is off to
college in the fall and just did a year-long reasearch project which, per the
instructions of her teacher, did it 'all wrong' by our standards: data
analysis, regression, charts in Excel; write-up in Word and presentations in
Powerpoint.
As one who writes everything in MarkDown by preference, are Word and
PowerPoint "all wrong"? Yes, their binary formats don't play so well
with revision control than plain-text formats such as MarkDown or
LaTeX, for example (but sticking them under revision control is still
of great benefit). In other ways they're superior: WYSIWYG editors, no
compilation steps, PDF-generation from within the tool, and they're
ubiquitous. Similarly, for some tasks they allow a user to "do more in
less time with less pain" than the alternatives*.
cheers,
mike
* Having spent more than the 5 minutes it should have taken yesterday
trying (and failing even with Google's help) to put a hyperlink to a
Wikipedia page with multiple underscores in a LaTeX document and have
it clickable in the resulting PDF.
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