this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2024
698 points (98.7% liked)

linuxmemes

20686 readers
845 users here now

I use Arch btw


Sister communities:

Community rules

  1. Follow the site-wide rules and code of conduct
  2. Be civil
  3. Post Linux-related content
  4. No recent reposts

Please report posts and comments that break these rules!

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

Context: LaTeX is a typesetting system. When compiling a document, a lot of really in-depth debugging information is printed, which can be borderline incomprehensible to anyone but LaTeX experts. It can also be a visual hindrance when looking for important information like errors.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago

As long as you let TeX do it's job, you usually don't get such issues. But there are many people who mistake TeX as a "Word for Scientists", and just make the same mistakes they make in Word because they do not grok TeX.