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Yes, I've used both. Personally, I like Nano because it's just so simple. There's something about tools that are scaled down in complexity, but not being so sim

Yes, I've used both. Personally, I like Nano because it's just so simple. There's something about tools that are scaled down in complexity, but not being so simple that they're unusable, that I enjoy a lot. I can see Vim being the better choice for a thesis, especially considering the history tree. Did you edit it in a word processor after?

doix 3y ago
> Did you edit it in a word processor after? No, straight to PDF, I suspect that's how most people use LaTeX [0]. It's kind of hard to explain if you've never used it. But basically you setup rules for how things should render (separately) from the content. You shouldn't need to edit it in a word processor afterwards (ideally anyway). > Personally, I like Nano because it's just so simple. There's something about tools that are scaled down in complexity, but not being so simple that they're unusable, that I enjoy a lot. I can see Vim being the better choice for a thesis, especially considering the history tree. Yeah, that's fair. I've used vim so much that I find nano unusable. It's not about the history tree (just a minor feature that happened to come in handy), it's the jumping between sections efficiently and reorganizing sections quickly. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX
etrautmann 3y ago
Oof wow definitely not. The magic of latex is in the automatic figure numbering, captions, table of contents etc. For a thesis length document, it’s crazy to me to imagine doing that in word. That being said, I had some typos in my thesis without an auto spell check, which I was surprised to discover later.
- Jtsummers 3y ago
  Word will manage your TOC and numbering easily and automatically. I still prefer TeX/LaTeX for longer documents, but it only takes a few minutes to get Word setup correctly for managing a thesis length or longer text.
  - doublepg23 3y ago
    Yeah my understanding is most publishing houses will only accept DOCX with few exceptions.

doix 3y ago

> Did you edit it in a word processor after? No, straight to PDF, I suspect that's how most people use LaTeX [0]. It's kind of hard to explain if you've never used it. But basically you setup rules for how things should render (separately) from the content. You shouldn't need to edit it in a word processor afterwards (ideally anyway). > Personally, I like Nano because it's just so simple. There's something about tools that are scaled down in complexity, but not being so simple that they're unusable, that I enjoy a lot. I can see Vim being the better choice for a thesis, especially considering the history tree. Yeah, that's fair. I've used vim so much that I find nano unusable. It's not about the history tree (just a minor feature that happened to come in handy), it's the jumping between sections efficiently and reorganizing sections quickly. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX

etrautmann 3y ago

Oof wow definitely not. The magic of latex is in the automatic figure numbering, captions, table of contents etc. For a thesis length document, it’s crazy to me to imagine doing that in word. That being said, I had some typos in my thesis without an auto spell check, which I was surprised to discover later.

Jtsummers 3y ago
Word will manage your TOC and numbering easily and automatically. I still prefer TeX/LaTeX for longer documents, but it only takes a few minutes to get Word setup correctly for managing a thesis length or longer text.
- doublepg23 3y ago
  Yeah my understanding is most publishing houses will only accept DOCX with few exceptions.