Goodbye and Good Riddance to Word Processors: A Better Way To Write Proposals
A few days ago I tweeted:
“Writing a proposal. Oh boy do I hate word processors. There must be a better way.”
It turns out there is, though I ended up forging my own path to suit my skills and working methods. A little background…
I need to produce decent looking proposals for web development projects. Normally I bite the bullet and suffer the awkwardness of Word or OpenOffice or LibreOffice or something, and then export to PDF. It’s all very clever: it took some great minds to produce this software. But it really goes against the grain. It feels so wrong.
I like plain old text, and as a web developer I’m used to defining the style of documents by hand, in CSS, … read on »