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Everything needs to be Googled, all the time. Want to include an image? Google it. Install a package. Google more for arguments. Want to center the image? Googl
by tasogare 6y ago
Everything needs to be Googled, all the time. Want to include an image? Google it. Install a package. Google more for arguments. Want to center the image? Google. Want to insert a table? Google. Oh a line in the table is too long, how to wrap it? Google. Decide between 3-4 options all having different shortcomings. Install new package. Which requires different arguments than the other command. Google. Insert an accented letter? Google. Insert a Chinese character? Google, package, google.
Everything is a pain to do, and I just described the happy path. If you try to do something a little tricky you easily run into incompatible packages wreaking with each other. Word has its shortcomings for sure, but for writing a short paper it’s a magnitude or two more easier and faster (except when a coworker uploaded it in Google Docs with deleted the styles...)
- anthk 6y ago>Google. Insert an accented letter? Google. No. Just use unicode.
- nanna 6y agoWell, use LuaLaTeX or XeLaTeX as your engine, and then just type in unicode. Also search for errors about missing glyphs in your font.
- tasogare 6y agoLatex doesn’t support unicode out of the box. And when it does, there are still issue with fonts.
- anthk 6y agoSpaniard user here, with some experience with LaTeX and Spanish with utf8 settings. It supports it fine.
- DemocracyFTW 6y agoTo be fair I've used lots and lots of Unicode (here: "characters not contained in US-ASCII") in XeLaTeX but have also had the need for some symbolic / numeric codepoints. I can tell you the syntax to do so is horrible. And yes I'd have to google that syntax before I could do it again.
- sgt 6y agoIsn't there a downloadable manual that you can use for looking up information?