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That’s unfair. It’s terrible from a technical perspective (due to cruft, mostly) but nothing comes close from a deliverable standpoint. It’s simply the most re
by abritinthebay 9y ago
That’s unfair. It’s terrible from a technical perspective (due to cruft, mostly) but nothing comes close from a deliverable standpoint.
It’s simply the most reliable print-ready format. It is a Portable Document Format in every way that matters to the end user
There’s a reason one of the main uses of LaTeX is outputting to PDF
- kingkongjaffa 9y agoCompletely agree, as a dumb user of latex I only care that I can make a document and that it looks the same on every computer or browser or printed out. That solution just happens to be latex, especially since virtually all computers will have some way of viewing and printing pdfs by default.
- abritinthebay 9y agoI really wish there was a better solution to typesetting than LaTeX (well, XeTeX if you’re serious about Unicode & language support I guess, which you should be) I hate it so much, if it wasn’t for its excellent abilities in specific areas (hyphenation, etc) I’d much prefer CSS. Yes, TeX makes me prefer CSS for layout. That’s how painful I find it.