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I tried to build my thesis using LaTeX. The uni doesn't have LaTeX template available, so I have to create them from scratch. It was a ludicrous task, so I stop
by whereistimbo 6y ago
I tried to build my thesis using LaTeX. The uni doesn't have LaTeX template available, so I have to create them from scratch. It was a ludicrous task, so I stopped doing it and used Word instead despite of all the quirks.
- cinntaile 6y agoIf the first time you come into contact with LaTeX is when doing your thesis then I can see why you stopped. Preferably you would have used LaTeX for writing project reports in other courses. If you don't have to enter equations all over your thesis then I would say LaTeX is a bit overkill, markdown probably would have worked as well or Word as you mentioned.
- glial 6y agoMine required a PDF submission that met very strict formatting guidelines, but they didn't have a LaTeX template available either. I asked the graduate student help desk if I could use one from a former student's GitHub repo, and they said "oh yeah, that's what everybody else uses..." This at a school with 10k+ grad students.
- tpxl 6y agoMy uni had a latex template that was made and updated by one of the professors and it was glorious. No fussing about with styles or anything, just writing the content.