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• anindefinitearticle@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨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.

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  • thevoidzero@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨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.

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    • anindefinitearticle@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You can use a symlink to point to the figures directory 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.

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      • thevoidzero@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yup simlink is so nice. I sometimes use it for color vs monocrome plots. Change simlink and compile. Although I learned you can also use if statements in latex, I use that now.

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