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• absentbird@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ve been writing all my college papers in LaTeX and it’s been great. They look so professional, and it’s easier to work on a collection of text files than one monolithic document.

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  • kalpol@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I swear typesetting your papers is worth half a grade point at least. Then once you find Zotero and realize it will automagically handle your citations and you have auto biblios and cites working in LyX…life changing, absolutely.

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    • pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’ve never learned latex but it seems like a huge learning curve. Never even proficiently learned vim yet

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      • RickyWars@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Not really like Vim at all. But yes its a bit of a learning curve. Imo its worth it but I’m an engineering grad student so it is especially suited to my uses.

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      • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It really depends on what you will use it for. Using it for plain text doesn’t require much, some advanced layouts require a bit more digging, if you’re including fancy graphics, bibliography, footnotes, etc, you’re going to look at managing the relevant libraries to gandle that (they are very well made and very convenient). All in all, it can be as complex as you want, but it can also be quite easy to use.
        Also LaTeX is way simpler than plain TeX.

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      • Evotech@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        These days you can just use AI to make the outline for you and go from there. Should be easier than ever

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      • kalpol@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Not too bad with LyX. Get templates and modify them. It is a learning curve but entirely doable.

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