I hate GUIs so much I literally avoided like a mini panic attack writing an abstract in Word Online and LibreOffice the other day. I did it though because somebody asked and I respect their need for a .docx file in this unique context.
I hate GUIs and I hate binary files. 
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It's an abstract.
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And it's a unique one off.
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But I'll try it next time. I'm scared of wasting the overhead time.of setting this up given I'll probably not do this again for 5 years, if ever.
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I've run into this exact problem a couple of times and decided to set up a template so that I can write everything in markdown. It currently only works with pandoc 1.19, but I'm going to set it up for 2.0https://github.com/zkamvar/notes-template …
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Can it do figures with captions? That's the thing that caused the most tears.
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Yup! pandoc is pretty versatile https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#images …. Example here produced the caption for figure 1 in https://peerj.com/preprints/26670/ …: https://github.com/everhartlab/sclerotinia-review-2017/blame/master/manuscript/review.md#L106-L112/manuscript/review.md#L148-L156 …
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So given I could barely do figures with captions in the WYSIWYG editor without crying, what do they look like after they are turned into .docx?
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IT IS SO BAD, ISN'T IT? I've been working on a requirements document in Word format because it's what the client is using, but the formatting is an inconsistent mess and I have to waste more time like, keeping paragraph spacing consistent than actually writing.
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I need to figure out some kind of alternative for generating documents in their formatting, but that allows writing in a simple enough plain text format. It has to be easy enough to use that even Word people will prefer it though...
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I could/would do something like that just for myself. But that also takes a lot of fussing, ultimately, to get the format looking right (albeit less). But it also has to be something other people can use, and these people can't write latex
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This is why I avoid it. Its pointless overhead for something that for me is less than yearly.
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