Comment on LPT Do it.

• the_third@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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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    • derGottesknecht@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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      • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Interesting.

        Yeah word sucks. I’m a software developer now and have to deal with Word and Excel more than I ever thought I would.

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  • howrar@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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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    • kogasa@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Typst is pretty functional

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      • howrar@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Ooh, that looks cool. Thanks for the recommendation.

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