>Anyway, refusing to use (La)TeX the easy way, then complaining about how hard it is to use, seems hardly (La)TeX's fault. Not generating clear error messages,

>Anyway, refusing to use (La)TeX the easy way, then complaining about how hard it is to use, seems hardly (La)TeX's fault. Not generating clear error messages, or apparently requiring a gui as the easy way is definitely Latex's (and the tooling around it) fault in my eyes. Latex files are text, just give me a decent compiler and let me use my own editor. If that is too hard there's something wrong. Also to me all the syntax is unnecessary cryptic, working with "variables" is a pain, nice modulatisarion is non-existent and probably a few more things I forgot. >I'm curious how that works! Sounds very interesting. Nothing really fancy. I have python scripts that generates figures which are included in my pdf. I use make to stitch everything together.