Comment on LPT Do it.

• 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}
  
  

  source

  • thehatfox@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    }

    I think you dropped this.

    source

    • A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

      source
  • 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.

    source

    • 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.

      source
• dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m 40 if that helps.

  source

  • 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 🤷

    source

    • 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?

      source

      • derGottesknecht@feddit.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Latex is no versioning tool but a textsetting language. It outputs perfectly formatted Documents after building and takes care of aranging images, quotes and all the tedious stuff so after setting up your template you only have to care about content. It works well with git.

        Not like word where adding an image fucks the whole formatting.

        source

        • -> View More Comments
    • 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.

      source

      • kogasa@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Typst is pretty functional

        source

        • -> View More Comments
• oce@jlai.lu ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Fuck, I’m old privileged.

  source