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> avoided using LaTeX because the workflow is _so_ 80's. I've never understood this way of thinking. Either it works or it doesn't work -- the age should have
by ShirtlessRod 13y ago
> avoided using LaTeX because the workflow is _so_ 80's.
I've never understood this way of thinking. Either it works or it doesn't work -- the age should have nothing to do with it.
- fnordfnordfnord 13y agoI don't like drawing circuits in LaTeX. Here, a simple circuit example: \item \begin{circuitikz}[american voltages] \draw (0,0) to[battery, l=12V](0,3) to[R, l=$150\Omega$ ](3,3) to[D,l=$D_1$](3,0) to[short](0,0) ; \end{circuitikz} It makes perfectly nice looking circuits, so it passes a definition of "works" but it is an archaic way of describing circuits. if I had to do serious electronics work in that manner, I might not bother. Yes, I can include drawings created by other software, and do so for more complex circuits.
- ShirtlessRod 13y agoI can understand that as a reason. In this case it sounds like there is a newer, more efficient format that has superseded the old one. (I'm no expert in circuits, so I'll take your word for it.) If some new technique/workflow/whatever is newer and more efficient, then I'm all for it. I just don't like the attitude that "newer == better" that has seemed to become more and more prevalent in recent years. (I'm not saying you were doing that, but the phrasing you used is something I typically see in that situation.)
- Gormo 13y agoDidn't you know that everything is style and nothing is substance?