On 2020-11-07, at 03:36, John Levine <johnl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > In the other 99% of the world everyone exchanges MS Word documents. I'm > certainly not saying that's wonderful, but it's reality. Hammer/nail. 99 % of the world is not collaboratively developing high-quality technical specifications, so I don’t care that much about those 99 % as a role model. I expect the minutes from the apartment owners’ meeting to be in MS-Word. Or a random document from our university administration (which is slowly learning not to send around MS-Word documents as a replacement for emails :-). But technical documents in the computer science department? Ha. Gitlab, hackmd/codimd, and (in the math/theoretical computer science world) overleaf are our collaboration platforms. (My information security class uses markdown for all its assignments. Even though that is not identified as a learning objective of that class, it creates great satisfaction to talk to alumni a couple of years later and hear unsolicited testimonials how they have weaned themselves off the time-wasting use of other formats.) It is much harder to get rid of MS-Excel... Grüße, Carsten
