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Kristoffer Lawson

"All right, let's write this out with ."
(Typing. Done.)
"A but I need this specific format for this one thing... how the hell..."
(Many hours later)
"OK, that hack seems to kind of work. Let's render it now to RTF. Crap, that doesn't work. Ah my MacTeX is from 2017, maybe that's why..."
(Now downloading new 5.51GB )

Let's see how this ends. Original text was in but that had even less layouting features and I wasn't in the mood to learn how to do a custom template.

Jul 27, 2023, 08:37 PM·Public
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Kristoffer Lawson

Specifically: I need a top left address and right aligned word count (preferably top-aligned with the left address), before the title. Can't see any obvious way to do that with short of doing a custom template.

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Kristoffer Lawson

For the record, having left address and right address (or anything) side by side at the top of an document seems to be possible by downloading the letter template, though it is a bit hacky.

In that template the first and second environments get laid out side by side. So write your address, separated by newlines (3 spaces + return), then start a new paragraph, indented. The new paragraph will float at the right.

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Kristoffer Lawson

I still feel that philosophically has the right approach to working on documents: thinking of structure and logical elements rather than layout (at write time). However as a app it never feels fully native and it would need a lot of usability work to get it super smooth.

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Kristoffer Lawson

Except unfortunately this trick doesn't work for exporting to Word documents, where that layout doesn't appear to get applied. Oh well. I guess for now the quickest is just to manually do something inside Pages and export from that (I don't have Word). But it would be nice to have a proper workflow.

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