No way it’s worse in this regard. LaTeX places figures and tables in floating environments, which tend to be fairly “smart” most of the time. Figure placement in MS is just painful by comparison.
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ladicius@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Is it worse than ms word in that regard?
rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It by default places them more intelligently than word. This frustrates people that want it to be placed where they want it.
Word doesn’t place images intelligently, but it makes it easier to move images for novice users. This makes word simpler and may initially seem better. However, if your document gets large and has more content added. Word can alter the locations of images erratically and you may find yourself constantly fixing them. If you understand how latex works and accept it methods, it can be a whole lot less stressful when working on larger documents.
pufferfisherpowder@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I have no experience with latex but I would argue that if you’re proficient in using word you can set up even a large document effectively. Most people just don’t bother. But things like page break, as a basic example, exist.
This isn’t to say that word is better than latex, again I have no experience with the latter, but word in 2023 is better than it’s reputation imo.
rainerloeten@lemmy.world 6 months ago
First, many people don’t know how to use WYSIWYG word processing programs, you’revery right about that!
Second, both systems have overlapping use cases which makes it difficult to differentiate between “technically better” and “better in my opinion”, i.e. objectively vs. subjectively.
Finally, use what tool you’re nist comfortable with. But you may want to invest time to get more comfortable with another tool, if your current one isn’t suitable for your job.
PS: things I do repeatedly, I do best in LaTeX. Because for other things I’ve already forgotten how to do them and have to re-learn them each time, which might be more time consuming than using other tools (or just Markdown with LaTeX support hehe)
psud@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Sure you can make it work, for example large mixed documents I have worked on have a section break - new page right before the diagram that each has which takes 20 - 100% of a page. What looks good as a right aligned image with text to the left is fine in that scenario, but if the break is deleted the format becomes terrible