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From experience, you don’t need to not have a CS background to find TeX/LaTeX difficult or obscure to customize or extend. Here’s a challenge to try (I hacked
by bogeholm 1y ago
From experience, you don’t need to not have a CS background to find TeX/LaTeX difficult or obscure to customize or extend.
Here’s a challenge to try (I hacked together something similar that only works in specific cases): write an environment where you get N columns in portrait page mode, with a vertical ruler, say, 12pt to the left of each column; respecting different paper sizes.
The amount of \makeatother, and what does that even mean??, will blow your mind
- fn-mote 1y ago> The amount of \makeatother, and what does that even mean?? I’m not a TeX lover, but this part is just a snipe. I’m guessing you know and this was a joke. Apologies that it annoyed me enough to write this comment. If you care enough to read this, you could learn the purpose of \makeatother [1]. It’s not tricky. [1]: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/8351/what-do-makeatletter-and-makeatother-do#8353 https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/8351/what-do-makeatl...
- bogeholm 1y agoApologies, my comment was poorly written. I meant “\makeatother, and a lot of other things whose meaning is not clear”