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> If you can draw a commutative diagram, and insert a PDF graphic, there isn’t really anything much more complex than that. Not true. I know what I am talking
by wolfgke 8y ago
> If you can draw a commutative diagram, and insert a PDF graphic, there isn’t really anything much more complex than that.
Not true. I know what I am talking about since I work in mathematical research (I like math, of course, but I openly admit not to like LaTeX).
- pmiller2 8y agoWell, I’ve been to grad school, done significant amounts of mathematical writing, read my share of papers, so I know what I’m talking about, too. The depth of the rabbit hole isn’t that deep for any one person; it’s more like a gopher hole, but everyone has their own little gopher hole.
- j7ake 8y agoCould you give an example where advanced LaTeX skills is required to write a paper?
- wolfgke 8y ago- TikZ wizardry. - Often, I had to look deeply into forum posts to get LaTeX to format a formula in the way that I imagined (often the solution involved deep LaTeX wizardry) - Creating a document that involves text in multiple alphabets (e.g. Latin alphabet, Greek alphabet, cyrillic alphabet). Actually trivial with Microsoft Word. ;-) Not to even mention problems where I have no idea how to start such as how to do reproducable build processes for LaTeX documents (i.e. each run of the build process produces a binarily identical PDF document).
- klyrs 8y ago> - TikZ wizardry. Yesssss
- pmiller2 8y agoTikz: don’t do that. Either use an editor that spits out a Tikz snippet (https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/80418/list-of-tikz-editor https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/80418/list-of-tikz-e...), or draw your figure in Omnigraffle or something, export to PDF and insert the figure that way. Multiple languages: \usepackage{babel}