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Don't get me wrong, I love LaTeX, having written my PhD thesis in it. But with the current tools, I would use Quarto instead. It's much easier, you can still "i

Don't get me wrong, I love LaTeX, having written my PhD thesis in it. But with the current tools, I would use Quarto instead. It's much easier, you can still "inject" LaTeX and it's quicker for less technical collaborators to adapt.

enriquto 1y ago
$ sudo apt install quarto E: Unable to locate package quarto yeah, hard pass
- goku12 1y ago
  I don't know anything about quarto, but you're missing a lot of useful software if you're limiting yourself to the distro repo - especially Debian stable.
  - enriquto 1y ago
    As a matter of principle, i prefer to use really stable software that does not change wantonly, and whose authors took the care to put it into debian. My 20 year-old .tex documents still compile today. Will the same happen with quarto? (or typst, for that matter?) The fact that they offer no packages in the debian standard distribution signals they have likely succumbed to the awful trend of version churning, where you need to use the last version of the software or else. Thus, probably, in 20 years my documents will be un-compilable. For legacy things like typeset documents, it's reasonable to prefer legacy solutions like latex. Once quarto and typst have stabilized enough to appear in debian stable, I'll consider them as viable alternatives.
    - immibis 1y ago
      FWIW software gets in Debian because of Debian, not because of the authors of the software.
- tecleandor 1y ago
  They have a deb package (if you really wanted to install it) https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/releases/tag/v1.8.1 https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/releases/tag/v1.8.1