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sudoer777@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Samskara@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  LaTeX is great for documents, mediocre for slides, questionable for spreadsheets, useless for mail and calendar.

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  • dustyData@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Awesome, it does great at what it was designed to do. And it even does mediocre at things it was not designed to do. It even does incompetently things that aren’t anywhere in its code? Amazing piece of tech.

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    • Samskara@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      LaTeX is great but it’s not an officer suite.

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• Waldemar@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My entires student time was with LaTex. Unable to write and format things in MSWord.

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• Clandestine@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I have used latex a lot with overleaf, but I’d like to try using an offline version. Do you have any tips?

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  • iamkindasomeone@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Just to throw in some other options: you can easily convert basically anything to latex (and ultimately to Pdf) using pandoc. For instance, if you use Zettlr as your markdown editor, you can also use a citation software (eg., Zotero) and quickly invoke it using the @ character. Then, you can write your documents in Markdown and inline Latex and create a Latex-powered Pdfs via pandoc. I use this approach to write scientific papers and it works pretty well.

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  • sudoer777@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Personally I use a Guix template I made which downloads necessary libraries and the LSP and pins the software versions, and I use the Helix text editor for editing. Not sure what the more common methods are.

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  • Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I used TexStudio for my Master’s thesis, it worked fine for me. I haven’t done a full survey of available LaTex distributions though :-)

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  • BlushedPotatoPlayers@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Kile used to be great, probably still is

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