It might make me smarter, but it makes me feel dumb.
LaTeX Master Race
Submitted 9 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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eRac@lemmings.world 9 months ago
marcos@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Most things that make you smarter also make you feel dumb.
(I won’t opine on whether LaTeX qualifies or not.)
phcorcoran@lemmy.world 9 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.
drail@fedia.io 9 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.
ransomwarelettuce@lemmy.world 9 months ago
May I introduce you to typst ?
curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 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.
buttfarts@lemy.lol 9 months ago
Let’s take a grainy photo of your oil painting and then filter it
jpablo68@infosec.pub 9 months ago
it bothers me that the chad’s text also uses comic sans…
drail@fedia.io 9 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/ndfdspmmxnrnHexesofVexes@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Question sheets in Word - “Hello, and welcome to indent roulette”
Question sheets in LaTeX - “\item{} goes brr”
drail@fedia.io 9 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.
FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
For some fucking reason I used to take my analysis and Lin Alg notes in latex
Midnitte@beehaw.org 9 months ago
I mean, having readable lin alg equations is rather useful.
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 9 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.
umbraroze@lemmy.world 9 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.
fossphi@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Org mode for the win
Spider89@lemmy.world 9 months ago
What about ODT?
pumpkinseedoil@mander.xyz 9 months ago
The sane middle ground. Word but it’s yours.
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 9 months ago
For actuarial sciences is LaTeX or dead, because the specific notation we need only exists on LaTeX.
ssm@lemmy.sdf.org 9 months ago
thad troff
Shareni@programming.dev 9 months ago
I mean, org-mode was invented because LaTeX is too hard
Speculater@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Yes, but that raises another argument, “lay tex” or “lay tek”… The endless fighting never stops!
klemptor@startrek.website 9 months ago
Lah-tek
Anything else is badness 10000
Speculater@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I’ve heard leh-tek more than lah-tek.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 9 months ago
Camp lah-tek
Hupf@feddit.org 9 months ago
Too bad English doesn’t really have a en.wikipedia.org/…/Voiceless_palatal_fricative?wp…
barsoap@lemm.ee 9 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.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 9 months ago
Lay Tex Mex 🌮
oxideseven@lemmy.ca 9 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…
Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 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
veganpizza69@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Jasper reports
RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
But they were all of them… deceived, for there was another typesetting system made, in the dark forges of Github…
mamg22@sh.itjust.works 9 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.
AernaLingus@hexbear.net 9 months ago
Whoa, that looks pretty sick. Definitely will give it a shot next time the need arises!