Exactly. Give them a bunch of setup, let them set it up as normal.
Then tell everyone to resize the second pictures and move all images from the side of the page to the right. Then see who does it first.
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anindefinitearticle@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Clearly flawed methodology.
The value of LaTeX isn’t productivity when making a single document.
The value of LaTeX is productivity when you need to reuse past work, or update it with the latest data and figures.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
thevoidzero@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
And the ease with which you can generate hundreds of lines of page with a simple text template and code.
anindefinitearticle@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Right.
Do your writing in a text documents accompanying the figures and data. The LaTeX code is just instructions for how to render the various text sources arrange the figures on pages to be printed or rendered as slides.
thevoidzero@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yup. When I rerun my things, in latex I just overwrite the plots file (pdf/png) and compile latex. In word I have to find where it was and replace it there. It’s way easier on latex if you make your code just write plot files in the same location.
anindefinitearticle@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
You can use a symlink to point to the
figuresdirectory of a certain run of the code. Add git history to the mix, and now you have an auditable record of what version of the code’s output ended up in each version of the paper.You can be so anal and precise about everything.