Comment on LPT Do it.

• the_third@feddit.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Never heard of latex

  Fuck, I’m old.

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  • A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    \documentclass{article}
    \usepackage{soul
    \begin{document}
    I'm 19 and I know how to use \LaTeX, \LaTeX is more used in academia, they taught me latex in Uni, but a lot of other people just won't ever heard of it because is rare to find in other places, most technical degrees and even a lot of uni ones won't use it \st{even if it's vastly superior to word}.
    
    \huge \LaTeX rules
    \end{document}
    
    

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    • thehatfox@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      }

      I think you dropped this.

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      • A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You have to excuse me, texstudio adds automatically the closing one.

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    • PlexSheep@infosec.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Same except that I taught myself. Written two essays for uni already with it and knew from the start that I wouldn’t touch word if I didn’t absolutely need it.

      Latex is confusing, the errors are often even less clear than Python or Java tracebacks, some packages have weird API or don’t work together, and I had to make a build script to work with it, but besides that, I have a good language and environment now to create pretty good PDFs with, including VCS with git and not having to use an editor that is not neovim.

      If you want to look deeper, there are a few more typesetting languages, some with more modern syntax. Markdown is surely the easiest, but not quite as powerful.

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      • A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yes, the \LaTeX code I wrote is 100% compilable.

        I also learned most \LaTeX myself, school just taught me the basic sintaxis, but is widely used amongst students and academics.

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  • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m 40 if that helps.

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    • the_third@feddit.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m in that that as well. I’m my age™ everybody wrote their bachelor and master thesis in LaTeX 🤷

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      • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I become a software developer later in life and never had the privilege to go to university, so sometimes I’m out of the loop on older tech.

        How did Latex compare to modern Git?

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      • howrar@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Everyone still uses LaTeX for CS/Math at my school. It’s not an age thing. Just different circles. I don’t think anything similar even comes close to LaTeX yet.

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  • oce@jlai.lu ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Fuck, I’m old privileged.

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• SeattleRain@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Well in this thread people were saying you can set up your own local git repository? What’s a newbie friendly way of doing that. I’ve watched videos and understand that git version control system but I can’t quite seem to grasp more than that.

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  • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I will answer this, I am sick right now but will return.

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  • PlexSheep@infosec.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You can just create a local repo with git init, and then never push to a (non existent) remote repository. Git is decentralized, meaning that you always have a functional and complete repo when you’re working with it.

    Depending on your tooling, you probably have a GUI for git if you’re a noob, which can usually “initialize a git repo” for you. I use the cli/lagygit tui, so I can’t help with that.

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    • SeattleRain@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thank you, this clears some things up for none the less.

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