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20 minutes? I've used LaTeX on and off for a decade and I still feel like I don't really understand it. I mean, I can copy-paste my way to do anything with it,
by notfed 5y ago
20 minutes? I've used LaTeX on and off for a decade and I still feel like I don't really understand it. I mean, I can copy-paste my way to do anything with it, but usually I'm Googling "latex how do I X" over and over.
If you learned it in 20 minutes please point me to the tutorial.
- kzrdude 5y agoFrom my experience, doing anything too advanced is a distraction. It sort of ruins the point of latex for me, if I have to use too many tweaks. So I always try to keep it as vanilla as possible.
- taeric 5y agoI think the point was if you are doing something that you could otherwise do with markdown, then it really isn't that difficult. Since, for the complicated things, the answer in Markdown is simply that you can't do them.
- mhh__ 5y agoWhat is X though? If it's "paragraphs" then fair enough, but if it's "obscure tikz diagram" etc. etc. then that's a different conundrum. If this is actually a point about latex being difficult to (say) write libraries for then I agree profusely but equally if you are writing latex-without-latex or whatever then you still have to deal with latex's wackiness even if it's got a shiny new frontend with its own quirks. Some billionaire funding a well designed latex killer would probably be a real gift to science - there is probably a lot of ground to be made up in spreading information (i.e. rendering latex for the web is surprisingly hard) and adding features like (say) structured programming to things like writing mathematics in LaTeX - I'd love for my work to be checked by a CAS automatically for example.