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LaTeX Master Race

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Submitted ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But they were all of them… deceived, for there was another typesetting system made, in the dark forges of Github…

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    • mamg22@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I read about typst a few weeks ago. I no longer make math- or formatting-heavy documents anymore, but if I had had this while I was in university, I would’ve loved to use it.

      LaTeX is nice, but there’s some things that are an absolute pain to get right or make them look like you want to.

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    • AernaLingus@hexbear.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Whoa, that looks pretty sick. Definitely will give it a shot next time the need arises!

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  • eRac@lemmings.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It might make me smarter, but it makes me feel dumb.

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    • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Most things that make you smarter also make you feel dumb.

      (I won’t opine on whether LaTeX qualifies or not.)

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  • phcorcoran@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m sorry but you can totally control the margin size in LaTeX if you learn the right incantation

    backslash UsEpAcKaGe letterpaper H-maaaaaaargin point seventy-niiiiiine inch brackets GEOOOOOMETRY

    then you spread the entrails slightly and stab towards the sky. Really don’t see what the big fuss is all about.

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    • drail@fedia.io ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      My former colleague and I both decided on the same template for our dissertation, but hers looked wonky with the default margins. Sacrificing that lamb to have slightly tighter margins was worth it, even if the eldritch ramblings keep me awake at night.

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  • ransomwarelettuce@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    May I introduce you to typst ?

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  • curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    A long while ago, I used to use kdissert (now semantik) to make all my white papers, from mind map to document, generating latex out, fine tune, and just gorgeous.

    Then I was forced to put them in word and hand it off to our graphics design people to put it into InDesign.

    I think I’m going to try semantik for more than mind maps again.

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    • buttfarts@lemy.lol ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Let’s take a grainy photo of your oil painting and then filter it

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  • jpablo68@infosec.pub ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    it bothers me that the chad’s text also uses comic sans…

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  • drail@fedia.io ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I did all my Quantum Field Theory homework in Latex, the professor required it. My classmates would write everything out by hand and then transcribe it, meanwhile my officemate and I could think/write/math in Latex, so we only had to write our homework once. The prof lifted the requirement halfway through the semester after everyone else complained, but I never looked back.

    The only thing that prevented a 100% Latex-only semester was the goddam section where we had to draw Wick diagrams. There just wasn't a reliable way to draw them on my computer, as the Feynman diagram tools stuggled with the nuances of Wick diagrams. I still included the hand-drawn versions as figures in Latex, but it felt like cheating.

    I did figure out how to write the Wick's theorem bracket notation in Latex though (not that I'll ever need to again), so that made up for it a bit. I wager that I spent more time researching obscure Latex packages than actually solving the problems that semester.

    I love Latex so much, I even made a template for generating profesional looking DND item cards for my table that I submitted to overleaf:
    https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/d-and-d-item-card-template/ndfdspmmxnrn

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  • HexesofVexes@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Question sheets in Word - “Hello, and welcome to indent roulette”

    Question sheets in LaTeX - “\item{} goes brr”

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    • drail@fedia.io ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not to dunk on word, if I need slightly more flexibility than a native .txt reader, it will do in a pinch. That being said:

      Word: Oh, you want a table? Good luck getting your excel sheet to cary everything over properly, and god forbid you change a formula. You want to write it natively in word? Lol no.

      Latex: tabularx goes brrrr


      Word: Equations? Have fun properly tracking equation numbers and manually formatting your text to center justified every time.

      Latex: $ $, /( /), and \begin{equation} go brrrr.


      Word: Figures? Hope you anchored everything properly, it would be a shame if your entire document layout got shifted...

      Latex: What the fuck is an anchor? top, here, bottom, those are your option. Add an exclamation mark if you're feeling spicy.

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  • FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    For some fucking reason I used to take my analysis and Lin Alg notes in latex

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    • Midnitte@beehaw.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I mean, having readable lin alg equations is rather useful.

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  • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Computer Modern makes you look like a cryptobro pretending to be a scientist, though these days there are Word templates for giving your whitepaper that sciencey look without having to know all that nerd shit.

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    • umbraroze@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      One of the reasons I love XeTeX, because it just spits out straight up PDFs and you can use any OpenType font. I can just typeset everything in Garamond, like how things are supposed to be typeset, dammit.

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  • fossphi@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Org mode for the win

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  • Spider89@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What about ODT?

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    • pumpkinseedoil@mander.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The sane middle ground. Word but it’s yours.

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  • driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    For actuarial sciences is LaTeX or dead, because the specific notation we need only exists on LaTeX.

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  • ssm@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    thad troff

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  • Shareni@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I mean, org-mode was invented because LaTeX is too hard

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  • Speculater@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes, but that raises another argument, “lay tex” or “lay tek”… The endless fighting never stops!

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    • klemptor@startrek.website ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Lah-tek

      Anything else is badness 10000

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      • Speculater@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’ve heard leh-tek more than lah-tek.

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    • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Camp lah-tek

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    • Hupf@feddit.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Too bad English doesn’t really have a en.wikipedia.org/…/Voiceless_palatal_fricative?wp…

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      • barsoap@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        For reference, the German pronunciation, same sound as in hew or human. Knuth says “TeX” is Tau, Epsilon, Chi, and says the Chi is supposed to be the voiceless velar fricative, as in Loch Ness. According to modern Greek phonetics, it can be either, ask an actual Greek how hard the fricative is supposed to be.

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    • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Lay Tex Mex 🌮

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    • oxideseven@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Lay tex.

      Why bother to fit your acronym to latex otherwise. ConTexT is another one. Would be silly otherwise.

      The creator might promote saying tech, but that shouldn’t matter since they Internet ignores the creator of the gif format and swears on ghif instead of the desired jiff…

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  • Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The only thing I hate is how sometimes a document compiles perfectly fine on one machine only to utterly fail on another. On the two machines were I had this happen I have Texlive installed so that I wouldn’t have to look up missing packages. Maybe this is a version mismatch error? I have no clue

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  • veganpizza69@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Jasper reports

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