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After a while writing LaTeX becomes second nature. I used to type my master's classes notes straight in LaTeX.
by I_AM_A_SMURF 3y ago
After a while writing LaTeX becomes second nature. I used to type my master's classes notes straight in LaTeX.
- OldGuyInTheClub 3y agoImpressive. I can't think and type fast with accuracy nearly well enough to do that for regular text, let alone a markup/page definition language. Looking back I wish I had continued practicing typing after the one class I took in it. I should also have learned shorthand.
- ColinWright 3y agoTimes have changed. We didn't have laptops in classes ... laptops didn't exist. And I wrote my PhD in TeX. Not LaTeX ... that hadn't been invented.
- dctoedt 3y ago> Times have changed ... I wrote my PhD in TeX. Not LaTeX ... that hadn't been invented. Brings to mind when I first learned TOPS-20 Emacs in law school (long story), circa 1980-81: A few of the CS grad students tolerantly looked down on Emacs as a crutch for newbies, because any real programmer would use TECO instead .... (IIRC, that version of Emacs was written as a collection of TECO macros.) Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/378/ https://xkcd.com/378/
- OldGuyInTheClub 3y agoNo laptops in my era, either. I managed to do my thesis in LaTeX only because a student in another department made a stylesheet to the expected format. Figures and captions were a struggle back then. But, we were 'appy in them days, though we wuz poor.