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despite all my rage IT keeps me trapped like a rat in a cage. (mander.xyz)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 7 months ago (16 children)

Don't forget LaTeX!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (9 children)

Please forget LaTeX. Please let us adopt a more modern alternative that isn’t absolutely painful to use.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

It's just different use cases. A quick one pager such as memo, summary, short review, etc can all be done in a simple word processor.

Anything thesis-like or scientific, definitely LaTeX. What needs to die is slides in LaTeX however. That is definitely outdated and so restricted. Even libre office PowerPoint is better. But again, the power of math syntax is strong here. You're very likely to see that ugly beamer format in CS and math classes.

I don't get why people need to be in camps. Just use...both?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I mean more that LaTeX’s syntax and compilation methods are outdated. I’ve tried to grok LaTeX many times, but the most I’ve ever been able to do is make small modifications to existing templates. I’ve never been able to make a brand new project work. I’m really hoping that modern alternatives like Typst become more common. There just don’t seem to be many out there because of how dominant LaTeX is.

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