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I like latex and use it almost exclusively for non-collaborative stuff. I've grown to despise word, although it is easy to make the argument that it's quicker f
by auxym 12y ago
I like latex and use it almost exclusively for non-collaborative stuff. I've grown to despise word, although it is easy to make the argument that it's quicker for throwing up a short document.
My main gripe with latex is debugging. Writing in a latex will go all fast and productive, until I forget something trivial that ends up taking an hour to find because of cryptic error message during compile.
Last, I think it was a & symbol in text that I forgot to escape. Tex was throwing an error about unmatched {, with a line number way later than my ampersand. Gah, went crazy looking at my file in vim and being certain everything was matched.
- gh02t 12y agoYeah, I rather love LaTeX too, but debugging is probably its biggest weakness. Especially the types of errors where the error message indicates an error in a line after where the error actually is, because of how the parser works. Those take me forever to find. It doesn't happen to me as much anymore, I've added a few vim plugins that help a lot (like rainbow parenthesis).
- pvaldes 12y agoYou can use lacheck for this. Is also integrated in auctex (for emacs) as 'Check' entry on the menu Command.