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Which formats do you prefer when writing technical content?

Survey period: 2 Jan 2017 to 9 Jan 2017

OptionVotes% 
Plain text35829.25
HTML24219.77
LaTeX735.96
Markdown (or any variant including APT)15112.34
OpenDocument Format (or RTF, Word or similar)56245.92
Wiki markup (any flavour)988.01
XDoc, DocBook or other XML format453.68
Other796.45
I don't write docs or technical content. Ever.16513.48
Respondents were allowed to choose more than one answer; totals may not add up to 100%



 
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GeneralHTML Pin
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter1-Jan-17 23:46
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GeneralIt depends Pin
Jochen Arndt1-Jan-17 21:14
professionalJochen Arndt1-Jan-17 21:14 
PageMaker for advertising material.

OpenDocument (LibreOffice) for public documents.

For internal documents I'm using plain text files when placed in source directories and HTML otherwise (to be accessible from the intranet).
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Deepak Vasudevan2-Jan-17 18:44
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OriginalGriff2-Jan-17 21:58
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GeneralOpenDocument format is not my prefer... Pin
Maciej Los1-Jan-17 19:30
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GeneralOther Pin
Tony Foo1-Jan-17 18:10
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Rajesh R Subramanian2-Jan-17 10:39
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Tony Foo2-Jan-17 11:10
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Rajesh R Subramanian2-Jan-17 12:18
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Rajesh R Subramanian5-Jan-17 11:16
professionalRajesh R Subramanian5-Jan-17 11:16 

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