Comment on I still haven't figured out how to do this

A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Rooster326@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Has anyone actually tried LaTex? Because Ho Lee Fuck.

  Took me like 8 hours to make my first document, and it failed to compile.

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  • A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yes?

    I use it all the time.

    Seems a skill issue on your behalf honestly, I gave no idea how could possibly take that long.

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    • Rooster326@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It takes 3 hours because it’s only available as a torrent shared at 56 kbps, then you have to stand up vs code. Then figure out how to setup a compiler, get a bunch of different plugs, then learn the magic commands to compile a document.

      It seemed very not user friendly.

      I work in IT and I had so much trouble.

      How people think my Grandma is going to swap from Word to this is beyond me. She can’t even figure Word out.

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      • A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Or you can not do that.

        In Linux install a LaTeX editor like texstudio + texlive full.

        On windows texstudio + miktex i think it was called.

        Then is just about learning the syntax and getting accustomed to using it, maybe write some macros, overall no more than an hour setting it up, and using it a couple of days to getting used to it so you write fast.

        You comically overcomplicated yourself lol.

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  • undu@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    There’s a relatively new latex replacement, which is much easier to use, although its ecosystem is not as complete (obviously)

    typst.app

    (The CLI tools are OpenSource and independent from the GUI thing they sell)

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  • jol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah, I wrote my thesis in it. As a programmer it made total sense to me.

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  • mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I wrote my entire undergrad project in it first time so yeah.

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  • Jankatarch@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    For the time period it came out, I am very impressed a program can position everything without bugs.

    Like you would expect it to surely miscalculate whatever layout magic is going on when writing math fornulas.

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  • quips@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Its quite professional looking but good god smite my ass if I ever have to use it again

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