- cross-posted to:
- [email protected]
- cross-posted to:
- [email protected]
Microsoft’s education-focused flavor of its cloud productivity suite, Microsoft 365 Education, is facing investigation in the European Union.
Microsoft’s education-focused flavor of its cloud productivity suite, Microsoft 365 Education, is facing investigation in the European Union.
I disagree, if only for the reason that you can’t easily and more importantly reliably convert document formats to plain text. On the other hand, there are plenty of good tools to convert plain text to printable formats (like pr from POSIX).
Why is the ability to convert files relevant for the relevance of formatting text? Which is important on paper (pencil) too, which can not be converted to something else.
If my professor wants a double-spaced document with Times New Roman in 12 point font and 1 inch margins, that’s very easy to do with a plain text file as input (They can load a template with all their defaults in their WYSIWYG editor and paste my text in). If I, as a user, want to convert a formatted document back to plain text to read/edit it (which I prefer), this is unreliable, and can lead to malformed output, especially with proprietary formats like docx that contain images; or flat out impossible with other proprietary formats.