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What I found in TeX is that when I was stuck with how to do that? in the 99% of the times somebody had faced and solved the same problem before, not matter how

What I found in TeX is that when I was stuck with how to do that? in the 99% of the times somebody had faced and solved the same problem before, not matter how extravagant. Do you want that? sure. Do this. So there is a possible solution for it that does not need to start doing microsurgery with the extra-arcane parts of the language. There was several very good books about Latex also. Is not easy always but definitely is doable. Lisp is like being over a small table really drunk in the middle of the oceanic storm. The points of reference are moving all the time and the documentation system basically hates you.

pvaldes 5y ago
(Okay, maybe is time to look for trouble. Sorry clisp. Here we go again...) apt install slime sbcl Always stubborn like a horse
qwerty456127 5y ago
> What I found in TeX is that when I was stuck with how to do that? in the 99% of the times somebody had faced and solved the same problem before, not matter how extravagant. Do you want that? sure. This true and really nice, as long as long as you are Okay with copy-pasting everything mindlessly without serious customizations. It's like being a wizard who would invoke some specific spells by reciting specific phrases in an ancient language without having any idea of the actual language and the nature of the magic while knowing them would let him achieve much much more, easily and elegantly.
- pvaldes 5y ago
  Or you can invest some money into buying books and invest lots of time learning a language that is a standard in scientific publication, as I did. Everything can be learnt. Is just a question of will, money and time.
  - qwerty456127 5y ago
    In fact I'm not interested in it being a standard in scientific publication nor in investing a huge amount of time. I just want a typesetting language which would be more practical and more powerful than HTML+CSS yet reasonably easy to learn and use in creative and practical ways. Unfortunately I don't know of any typesetting languages other than TeX and HTML+CSS.

pvaldes 5y ago

(Okay, maybe is time to look for trouble. Sorry clisp. Here we go again...) apt install slime sbcl Always stubborn like a horse

qwerty456127 5y ago

> What I found in TeX is that when I was stuck with how to do that? in the 99% of the times somebody had faced and solved the same problem before, not matter how extravagant. Do you want that? sure. This true and really nice, as long as long as you are Okay with copy-pasting everything mindlessly without serious customizations. It's like being a wizard who would invoke some specific spells by reciting specific phrases in an ancient language without having any idea of the actual language and the nature of the magic while knowing them would let him achieve much much more, easily and elegantly.

pvaldes 5y ago
Or you can invest some money into buying books and invest lots of time learning a language that is a standard in scientific publication, as I did. Everything can be learnt. Is just a question of will, money and time.
- qwerty456127 5y ago
  In fact I'm not interested in it being a standard in scientific publication nor in investing a huge amount of time. I just want a typesetting language which would be more practical and more powerful than HTML+CSS yet reasonably easy to learn and use in creative and practical ways. Unfortunately I don't know of any typesetting languages other than TeX and HTML+CSS.