A better bet is LibreOffice as cheap jacks like me can see no obvious reason for paying for something when a functional equivalent exists for free.
On Wed, 25 May 2022, 20:53 Hakan--- via use-livecode, < [email protected]> wrote: > Yes, you need to use something to create the PDF first of course. And here > Word might be a good candidate. Especially if you are to write a lot of > explaining text and then paste some code. > I think I still would go for an automated setup and write the explanations > in the code. Then you could automate the full process (in Livecode of > course :) But it all depends on the purpose of course. > > If you are looking for a tool to convert between a lot of different > formats I suggest you take a look at pandoc. A command line Swiss army tool > for document conversion. > > Good Luck! > :-Håkan > > Skickat från min iPhone > > > 24 maj 2022 kl. 22:37 skrev Mark Smith <[email protected]>: > > > > Thanks, I wasn’t aware that could be applied to just a specific format… > I had always thought of it as document wide. Mind you, I don’t take > advantage of 90% of the features in Word either. PDF sounds like a good > option for distribution but don’t you still need to create the file in > something else? I’ve only ever converted documents to/from PDF. > > > >> On 24 May 2022, at 3:57 pm, Håkan Liljegren <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> Probably not what you want to hear, but I never distribute documents in > Word as I then have no control on the formatting. The receiver might not > have the same font installed and then the text might reflow and all kinds > of bad things might happen! :) > >> > >> I always use PDF for distrution. BUT, if you still want to use Word you > can create a specific format for the code blocks and then select the > language for that format and check the “Do not check spelling or grammar” > for that format. You can also select the newly pasted text and then do the > same procedure (Select language and check the do not check checkbox). > >> > >> :-Håkan > >> > >>> On 24 May 2022, at 13:00, Mark Smith via use-livecode < > [email protected]> wrote: > >>> > >>> Hello list, > >>> > >>> Do you use anything to make code look more readable when inserted into > a Word document? I ask because all those squiggly red underlines > (spellcheck marks) makes it pretty unattractive, although they can be > turned off. However, when distributing a document to others they may not > know how to turn that off. Just wondering if you’ve found a better way for > distributing code in word docs. > >>> > >>> Thanks! > >>> Mark > >>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> use-livecode mailing list > >>> [email protected] > >>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > >>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > >> > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
