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lowleveldata@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

• Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  But better for LaTeX

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  • drre@feddit.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    and then there are fucking PIs insisting on word files who never heard of tracked charges let alone of file naming conventions.

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    • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      I dunno what a PI is, but my honours thesis supervisor was the person who first introduced me to TeX. And gods, I wish I had known about it earlier in uni, or even back in high school. It is so useful when writing any sort of papers with sections and diagrams and bibliography.

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      • 01101000_01101001@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Principal Investigator. It’s the lead scientist in charge of the project.

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      • Hundun@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Check out Typst (a newer TeX-like layout engine) if you have time, I’m interested in your opinion. I find it a bit simpler to use than TeX.

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    • prashanthvsdvn@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Then start writing in Markdown. Markdown is easier in syntax, supports LaTeX equations, has metadata and is in plain text so you can use git. And the killer feature is you can use pandoc to convert the markdown file into word, pptx, LaTeX pdfs, html etc. you can also setup a make file that runs pandoc when you ask like this

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      • drre@feddit.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        yeah this is what i used for some projects, i.e. rmarkdown which also integrates the statistics part

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• jeena@jemmy.jeena.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  That’s why we wrote out thesis in LaTeX: github.com/jonte/GGS-report/blob/…/report.lyx#L36…

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  • programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I also have my reports in latex inside a git repo, complete with a makefile to generate graphs from csv containing simulation results. However I am too ashamed to publish the entire version control to a public repo

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  • user224@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    #LyX 2.0 created this file. For more info see www.lyx.org

    Wait, I thought you guys did it manually…

    Anyway, I should still learn it.

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    • jeena@jemmy.jeena.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      It’s a editor helping you writing it, you cat still go inside and change things manually if you need/want to do that.

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• vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Unzip the docx with a pre-commit hook

  (This is not a serious suggestion)

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• dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Just like word documents are shit for papers and theses/dissertations it turns out. The formatting alone is a nightmare.

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• steventhedev@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  .gitattributes can invoke Word on windows to diff versions, and there are plenty of open source scripts that can do it if you don’t have a copy of Word (or Windows) lying around.

  But Word is like shit for papers. Use LaTeX instead.

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• Hundun@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Why on Earth would you curse yourself with MS Office anyway, especially if writing docs is your professional responsibility?

  Why not use Git+Markdown+Pandoc, have your copy, data and layout separate?

  I understand that a lot of istitutions/companies impose stylistic/technical requirements for docs and publications, - still doesn’t matter you gotta stay married to the worst tooling.

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  • lowleveldata@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Why on Earth would you curse yourself with MS Office anyway

    idk it says .docx in OP’s image

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    • Hundun@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Oh sorry, I was too focused on calling out the silliness of the idea.

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    This is the way.

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  • titey@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    This is the way.

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• Opafi@feddit.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Still better than using file names.

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