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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 ho
by 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 agoOr 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 agoIn 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.