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I've had similar nightmares involving LaTeX.
by jhallenworld 9y ago
I've had similar nightmares involving LaTeX.
- CalChris 9y agoWhen I actually settled down to use LaTeX for a paper, I found it plenty nice. However there are two areas of LaTeX best left to professionals. Installation - just use a cloud LaTeX like OverLeaf. Font Installation - use what's available. If what you want isn't available, use what's available.
- nerdponx 9y agoWas this on Linux? LaTex on Mac and Windows is really easy (MacTex and MikTex, respectively). Installing fonts through the Tex Live Manager is as easy as installing any other package. There's also XeLaTex and LuaTex, both of which can use system fonts.
- slrz 9y agoProbably not as it's the equivalent of `$pkg install texlive-full' (or whatever) on basically all distributions you'd use for a workstation.
- CalChris 9y ago> Installing fonts through the Tex Live Manager is as easy as installing any other package. That's only the case if that font is already packaged. I tried to package Hack for installation and ran away shrieking like a banshee. It was a time sink where I probably could have wasted a couple of weeks coming up to speed on something I really didn't need to know. Anyways, I'm quite happy with OverLeaf and Inconsolata is close enough.
- marcosdumay 9y agoOn Debian systems, installation is apt-get install texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-extra texlive-latex-recommended (basically, all the texlive-latex-* packages, base is enough for simple stuff). Fonts come in the packages. if you want some extra one, just apt-get install it too.
- rleigh 9y agoRegarding fonts, nowadays I just use XeLaTeX and you can select any system font directly and output straight to PDF.
- mhd 9y agoI kinda miss lout.