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• Generous1146@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  I’ve wasted hours of my life, trying to insert an image in a word document without word compressing it, making it illegible, only to find out that it’s impossible. I can’t even imagine anything being worse at this point

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  • bleistift2@sopuli.xyz ⁨54⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Sure, but have you ever wasted hours of your life checking the documentation for the exact string of case-sensitive letters that force LaTeX not to yeet your image 45 pages further into the document, because that’s THE MOST PERFECT PLACE to put it?

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• anindefinitearticle@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Clearly flawed methodology.

  The value of LaTeX isn’t productivity when making a single document.

  The value of LaTeX is productivity when you need to reuse past work, or update it with the latest data and figures.

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  • thevoidzero@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And the ease with which you can generate hundreds of lines of page with a simple text template and code.

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    • anindefinitearticle@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Right.

      Do your writing in a text documents accompanying the figures and data. The LaTeX code is just instructions for how to render the various text sources arrange the figures on pages to be printed or rendered as slides.

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• PartiallyApplied@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Word definitely has its niche.

  However, I find for many of my tasks, LaTeX or Typst just make sense. I don’t need to worry about out of date figures. I can customize styling instantly. I can track my changes with Git. Grammar checking is rough tho. lsp-like grammar checking would revolutionize my world lol.

  I can personally attest that I transitioned to LaTeX from Word, when Word wouldn’t handle equations correctly, or would crash when I had too many. It doesn’t matter if I can put out 50 word equations faster than LaTeX if I’m breaking my flow state to restart my editor.

  They overlap in their ecosystem niches but in no way is one a complete replacement for the other. LaTeX has a larger niche than Word which makes it a really safe default.

  “Nobody ever got fired for choosing React”

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• ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  needs more jpeg.

  but on a serious note, how do you version control an msoffice/libreoffice document? you can’t just put it in git, the repo will get huge quickly

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  • gratux@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    docx is just a zip of xml files. if you add some hooks to git, you could make it unzip it, commit the xml files, then when checking out rezip it into a docx automatically.

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• DavidGarcia@feddit.nl ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  latex exists to make your text look more professional, not to make you more productive, duh.

  pig lipstick

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• smiletolerantly@awful.systems ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Now judge it by how good the end result looks

  But also… The fuck?

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• Maroon@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “¿Por qué no los dos?”

  I write my text in a word processor (Like Libreoffice writer) and typeset the final document in LaTeX.

  I never understood this false comparison between the two software that are essentially meant for very distinct tasks.

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  • sunoc@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Thanks Satan !

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• death_to_carrots@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Just write everything in markdown and use pandoc to type set.

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  • fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That is what Obsidian is for.

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• nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’ve been questioning the benefits every time someone insisted that I should use latex. Now I have scientific evidence that it won’t make my life better!

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  • fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Use latex. It will make your life better.

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    • nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Well, latex users reported enjoying the software, so I will give you that credit.

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• meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This is an outrage! 🧐

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