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LPT Do it. (mander.xyz)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I learned latex by doing my engineering homework in it. I quit using latex because I kept doing my engineering homework in it and it turns out it sucks to do

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm doing my math homework with latex this semester, I'm probably slower but it looks good and is more maintainable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The issue I had was if it was big enough to need maintainability it was a group project and that meant Google docs or it was math and that meant scrawled on paper. Or technical writing which is the prof that told us to try latex in the first place but I was too busy that semester to learn it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You can do maths in LaTeX and I have used Overleaf for group projects before.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Fair, but this was 10 years ago, we were engineers, and it was hard enough explaining the work I did and the work I needed other people to do to them in a way these people understood.

Also I can’t do math on computers. Like arithmetic sure, but real math, that requires actually writing it down. Idk that’s probably my old lady trait these days

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Presumably you do the work on paper and then type it up. I doubt professors would accept paper work nowadays.