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It’s a huge issue in most fields. No one uses latex anymore outside of niches like math and physics.
by physPop 3y ago
It’s a huge issue in most fields. No one uses latex anymore outside of niches like math and physics.
- pbasista 3y ago> No one uses latex anymore That is a very broad statement. Do you have any data to back it up? Do you suggest that it was used in the past but that has changed? If so, why?
- PartiallyTyped 3y agoWell, we should go back to that, or something that is easier.
- sebzim4500 3y agoI've been shilling https://typst.app/ https://typst.app/ to anyone who will listen (and some who won't), it's great. There are still missing features compared to latex, but what exists seems so much more intuitive.
- abdullahkhalids 3y ago[deleted]
- Al-Khwarizmi 3y agoIt seems to be on github with an Apache license (https://github.com/typst/typst https://github.com/typst/typst). Is there a catch I'm not seeing?
- sebzim4500 3y agoHe's probably upset that the online editor is closed source. Personally I think that's a reasonable monetization strategy long term.
- Al-Khwarizmi 3y agoIn Latex, the online editor i know (Overleaf) is also closed source.
- stevejpurves 3y agoThe fast pdf generation is great but I lament on their choice of markup language, why create yet another? I'm a fan of writing content in markdown and there is at least on markdown flavour (MyST markdown) that gives the essential writing features needed for papers. (citations, cross references, figures, tables)
- PartiallyTyped 3y agoI can see why! Many thanks fren, this will likely make my life easier. Much appreciated!
- noslenwerdna 3y agoWait, math and physics are niche?
- tut-urut-utut 3y ago[flagged]
- dang 3y agoYour account has continued to post unsubstantive and flamebait comments to HN, a lot of them, after we asked you to stop. We're going to have to ban you if you keep doing this. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- dev_tty01 3y ago>No one uses latex anymore Not true. IEEE, one of the largest professional orgs, accepts Latex. So does ACM, a huge comp sci org. I'm not familiar with others, but wouldn't be surprised if many others still accept Latex.
- jvanderbot 3y agoAiaa, aaai, many others follow as well. Its ubiquitous.
- eldaisfish 3y agoHow many IEEE papers are submitted using the latex template? I wonder, because word-style formatting can be spotted in several of their papers. Latex is a giant pain to use - and i say this as someone who still uses it to write scientific articles. Services like overleaf exist but that is sometimes not an option with proprietary work.
- eddieh 3y agoDepends on the specific publication/conference within the org. ACM accepts LaTeX or Word. I always write in LaTeX, but got a paper accepted to an ACM conference that wanted Word and my beautiful photo ready paper got borked in the final print. I guess there is significant interest in authoring ACM papers in Word[0]. [0] https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template
- jvanderbot 3y agoRoboticist here: we use it. Aerospace generally does too. Computer vision seems to. In fact I think most tech related journals do, iirc.
- ashton314 3y agoCS PhD student here. Everyone uses LaTeX.
- ls612 3y agoLatex is ubiquitous in Economics.