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		souterrain on June 15, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Word processors are ditching equation editors in f... Repeatability. Complex formatting, such as figure captions and figure placement, in Word documents suddenly break for no apparent reason. Troubleshooting a “broken” Word doc is akin to fixing a typewriter while one is blindfolded.

sjy on June 16, 2019 [–]

Wouldn't it be nice if Word actually provided some kind of UI for working with the underlying XML, like the old WordPerfect 'show codes' feature?

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