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And the ease with which you can generate hundreds of lines of page with a simple text template and code.
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Yup. When I rerun my things, in latex I just overwrite the plots file (pdf/png) and compile latex. In word I have to find where it was and replace it there. It’s way easier on latex if you make your code just write plot files in the same location.
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Yup simlink is so nice. I sometimes use it for color vs monocrome plots. Change simlink and compile. Although I learned you can also use if statements in latex, I use that now.
Exactly. Give them a bunch of setup, let them set it up as normal.
Then tell everyone to resize the second pictures and move all images from the side of the page to the right. Then see who does it first.
Storing text in binary formats like word docs instead of plain text like latex makes git version control unusable.
/begin{outrage}
How dare they!?
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latex exists to make your text look more professional, not to make you more productive, duh.
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Thanks Satan !
Just write everything in markdown and use pandoc to type set.
.md .tex .md
That is what Obsidian is for.
Maybe it takes more time because it allows more editing control over the finished product. The report of an enjoyable user experience for latex would back this up since users were able to produce what they wanted instead of being limited to using words jank as editing and just giving up or using a shitty template. Test against plain text entry I bet there is a positive correlation between limited features and total word count
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 I don’t need to worry about out of date figures.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”
I’ve done a bit more searching and it seems ltex-lsp-plus is the best out there for lsp grammar checking. It’s 1000x better than nothing, though the false negative rate is a bit high for my taste :)
Now judge it by how good the end result looks
But also… The fuck?
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!
Use latex. It will make your life better.
Well, latex users reported enjoying the software, so I will give you that credit.
I used it for resumes and assignments in school. Like others said I wasn’t trying to save time but to make things look more professional.
I’m imagining what it would be like to write a page long {align} in word and it’s terrifying.
Typst >>>>>.
But still, Word sucks ass.
This is an outrage! 🧐
I wonder how typst performs in this regard. That said, does anyone know how to more easily create a diagram?
I’m not sure what kind of diagram you’re after, but Typst has Cetz which is graphing + arbitrary drawing of shapes, paths, splines, etc.
Typst also has fletcher “maker of arrows” for diagrams which is my personal fave for the work I do
It can be rendered in LaTeX with a little work around.
