Re: [tlug] What's with this anti-Apple tirade? [was: 2014-05-10 Linux Quiz]

["Daniel A. Ramaley" <daniel.ramaley@example.com>]

On 2014-05-14 at 16:01:17 Jim Breen wrote:
> all examination papers had to be submitted electronically, and
> that the only acceptable format was MS Word.

Several years ago i took a course that required electronic submission of 
assignments. The syllabus was specified that papers much be in MS Word 
format. My usual document flow is to create LaTeX document in emacs and 
compile them to PDF, with no conventional word processors being 
involved. What i did was wrote my papers as usual. Then i took the PDFs 
and converted them to TIFF graphics, then used OpenOffice to import the 
TIFF and saved it as a Word document. The result met the submission 
requirements. Of course my files were a couple orders of magnitude 
larger in file size than other students papers of the same number of 
pages. And my files were not editable.

I explained to the professor what i had done and why. The next year for 
that course PDFs were allowed.

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