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that seems like a ton of work, especially for problem sets
by smabie 6y ago
that seems like a ton of work, especially for problem sets
- whimsicalism 6y agoYou get very fast at it, especially if you start early in college - I actually live tex'd the lectures I went to starting sophomore year. Nowadays I mostly use markdown with inline latex as formatting with latex can be a pain.
- dbcurtis 6y agoIt’s a matter of practice. My kid takes lecture notes live using LaTeX. Of course that reflects a ton of practice on PSets and papers over the years.
- MereInterest 6y agoFor the most part, just a matter of practice. One advantage that it has is that you have less incentive to make multiple simplifications in a single step. Copy a line, make a rearrangement. Copy a line, combine two like terms. Since you aren't re-writing everything that is unchanged, there isn't as much of a cost to showing your steps. I did get a rather funny look from a professor in grad school when I turned in a fully typeset document on a timed take-home exam.
- vulcan01 6y agoI copied (most of) my method for taking live LaTeX notes from this guy. https://castel.dev/post/lecture-notes-1/ https://castel.dev/post/lecture-notes-1/
- whimsicalism 6y agoI love this setup! I mostly used Macdown in college (and now obsidian.md).
- hansvm 6y agoI had a few professors require LaTeX solutions. After a little practice it was only slower than handwritten answers for some symbol-heavy assignments. So much time was spent comparatively on solving the problems that it was a negligible overhead regardless.