But they were all of them... deceived, for there was another typesetting system made, in the dark forges of Github...

It might make me smarter, but it makes me feel dumb.

I'm sorry but you can totally control the margin size in LaTeX if you learn the right incantation

backslash UsEpAcKaGe letterpaper H-maaaaaaargin point seventy-niiiiiine inch brackets GEOOOOOMETRY

then you spread the entrails slightly and stab towards the sky. Really don't see what the big fuss is all about.

May I introduce you to typst ?

A long while ago, I used to use kdissert (now semantik) to make all my white papers, from mind map to document, generating latex out, fine tune, and just gorgeous.

Then I was forced to put them in word and hand it off to our graphics design people to put it into InDesign.

I think I'm going to try semantik for more than mind maps again.

it bothers me that the chad's text also uses comic sans...

I did all my Quantum Field Theory homework in Latex, the professor required it. My classmates would write everything out by hand and then transcribe it, meanwhile my officemate and I could think/write/math in Latex, so we only had to write our homework once. The prof lifted the requirement halfway through the semester after everyone else complained, but I never looked back.

The only thing that prevented a 100% Latex-only semester was the goddam section where we had to draw Wick diagrams. There just wasn't a reliable way to draw them on my computer, as the Feynman diagram tools stuggled with the nuances of Wick diagrams. I still included the hand-drawn versions as figures in Latex, but it felt like cheating.

I did figure out how to write the Wick's theorem bracket notation in Latex though (not that I'll ever need to again), so that made up for it a bit. I wager that I spent more time researching obscure Latex packages than actually solving the problems that semester.

I love Latex so much, I even made a template for generating profesional looking DND item cards for my table that I submitted to overleaf: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/d-and-d-item-card-template/ndfdspmmxnrn

For some fucking reason I used to take my analysis and Lin Alg notes in latex

Question sheets in Word - "Hello, and welcome to indent roulette"

Question sheets in LaTeX - "\item{} goes brr"

What about ODT?

Org mode for the win

Computer Modern makes you look like a cryptobro pretending to be a scientist, though these days there are Word templates for giving your whitepaper that sciencey look without having to know all that nerd shit.

For actuarial sciences is LaTeX or dead, because the specific notation we need only exists on LaTeX.

thad troff

I mean, org-mode was invented because LaTeX is too hard

Yes, but that raises another argument, "lay tex" or "lay tek"... The endless fighting never stops!

The only thing I hate is how sometimes a document compiles perfectly fine on one machine only to utterly fail on another. On the two machines were I had this happen I have Texlive installed so that I wouldn't have to look up missing packages. Maybe this is a version mismatch error? I have no clue.

Also I had an old document I wanted to compile which used a '\begin{justifying}' tag. I can't get that tag to work anymore and had to replace it with just '\justifying'

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