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I should really learn latex

• dublinben 11y ago
  I wouldn't consider myself an expert in any way, but it takes less than an hour to get up to speed with the Latex necessary to compose a nice CV/resume. Most people spend far more time wrangling with a word processor to get a much uglier result.
  • middleclick 11y ago
    I learned basic Latex, just the minimum necessary to get started. And now I just Google what I want and use the code verbatim, never bothering to understand the internals. I thought I was the only one who did this until I saw that most other people in my university did the same.
    • sgeisenh 11y ago
      Honestly, that's what makes LaTeX great. Formatting is decoupled from content. If you want to make a formatting change, you can Google it and chances are that somebody else has done the same thing.
  • ma2rten 11y ago
    In Latex usually get nice results with the result settings, but if you don't you can spend hours getting it to look the way you want.
• tomjen3 11y ago
  It is pretty awesome for what it does, but honestly it isn't worth learning it for a CV when you can surely find some markdown -> latex -> pdf translator. LaTeX is worth it when you have a group writing project or you need to typeset more than a couple equations, at which point there really isn't any substitute.