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I use LaTeX specifically because I have lots of figures. Word's handling of figures is monstrous: moving them around at the drop of a hat is just awful. Tables
by Lewisham 17y ago
I use LaTeX specifically because I have lots of figures. Word's handling of figures is monstrous: moving them around at the drop of a hat is just awful.
Tables are definitely easier in WYSIWYG.
Some sort of typographic valhalla would be Markdown syntax with LaTeX equations and figures, BibTeX bibliographies and WYSIWYG tables.
EDIT: It looks like Pandoc does this! Awesome!
- jwr 17y agoYou mention BibTeX and valhalla in the same sentence, I gather you never had to modify BibTeX styles? Or code in BAFLL ("BibTeX Anonymous Forth-Like Language")?
- eru 17y agoInterestingly, I like tables in LaTeX better. Not because I like the syntax of LaTeX, but because it is much easier to get a program to spit out LaTeX tables (and have LaTeX use them automatically) then dealing with WYSIWYG.
- chronomex 17y agoFailing that, you can take your data (originally suitable for gnuplot) and make it suitable for LaTeX to \include{} via cat data.tsv | sed -e 's/<tab>/ & /g;s/$/\\\\/' And then you can put all this into a Makefile or whatever you prefer. :)
- tel 17y agoI do this using org-mode's tables pretty frequently. It's the way I generate 95% of my Latex tables.