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My personal beef with LaTeX, other than the utterly atrocious syntax, is that it a.) endlessly barfs on your terminal during its normal operation and b.) does n
by titzer 4y ago
My personal beef with LaTeX, other than the utterly atrocious syntax, is that it a.) endlessly barfs on your terminal during its normal operation and b.) does not respond to normal terminal interaction upon an error (wth is it expecting? I interactively edit and correct mistakes!?). So it's scroll blindness and flailing all the way, a kludgy, rickety mess. Not to mention its utter mess of a package management system.
- w4rh4wk5 4y agoFor the terminal output issue, consider latexrun https://github.com/aclements/latexrun https://github.com/aclements/latexrun
- tephra 4y agoIt should be noted that TeX wa s of course designed to actually be interactive and stop letting you fix errors. I went through the texbook by Knuth last year and my eyes were opened (also note that I am an incurable (La)TeX fan so my opinion is biased)