Re: [PLUG] Is there a better alternative LATEX?

[JP Vossen via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

On 1/17/21 5:21 PM, Charlie Li via plug wrote:
> JP Vossen via plug wrote:
> > Food for thought: `.odt` files (or even `.docx` files) are really just
> > zip files containing XML and other stuff.  The XML part is *not* as
> > human readable as any of the wiki markups we've talked about, but you
> > can puzzle it out, it *is* revision controllable and it produces at
> > least somewhat useful diffs.  You'd have to build a quick wrapper to
> > pull the XML out then commit both XML and zip, but...you could.  It's
> > not ideal, but it's a lot better than "binary files differ."
> Flat XMLs can be opened and saved directly from the word processor; no
> (re-)packing formalities needed. For the OpenDocument format, the file
> extension is .fodt.


On 1/21/21 7:38 PM, Eric Riese via plug wrote:
> I was looking at a LATEX based workflow for maintaining my resume. I
> ultimately decided against it because it wasn't worth learning LATEX
> just for that and there wasn't a good answer to generating a .docx
> when necessary.
>
> What I ended up with is that I use LibreOffice. But I save to a .fodt
> format. That stands for flat ODT, meaning it's a single XML file, not
> zipped. It behaves passably in git. Every save contains many more
> changes than just what I intended, but at least it's something.
>
> I also have a Makefile that builds .docx and Hybrid PDFs (that's a PDF
> with an embedded ODT copy so it's edittable in LibreOffice at least)
> from the .fodt and uploads it to my web server. Feels much better than
> clumsily sftp'ing it and then sshing in, moving the files and changing
> the permissions every time.
>
> Just like what JP was suggesting, I was actually planning on putting
> the zipping and unzipping in the Makefile before I found the .fodt
> format.

I never noticed that one before.  Cool.  It's a tad ugly, but then it's XML so that's redundant.  And it's certainly more "plain text."

I used to have my resume in Word, way back when.  At some point I re-did it in plan old hand-crafted HTML, and that's been good enough since [1].  I'm not sure what I'd do now, probably try Asciidoc or some related wiki markup...or fall back to HTML.

[1] https://www.jpsdomain.org/jp/Vossen_Resume.html

Later,
JP
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