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Yes, but it is precisely because they are trying to get a slice of the pie from large studios that whatever happens to indie devs with their changes are just collateral damage

The title is actually perfect, but requires some context, after which you might appreciate its tongue-in-cheek beauty: The author studied at CMU, where the proudly-paraded slogan f…

Overleaf ( https://overleaf.com/ ) is pretty popular for this, and also tracks things like edit history

> Many LaTeX tricks only get passed down from advisors to students, or from collaborators to collaborators. Which is a great point on why the average quality of LaTeX homework subm…

Wish I knew about autoref earlier, it also increases the area spanned by the hyperlink generated to the entirety of "Figure 1" instead of just "1" in the case of ref.

Interesting explanation on how it developed historically. I've seen mathbf used in some books, but I guess old conventions are hard to change.

Ah, I guess that's what happens when you do both Markdown and LaTeX in the same document! Thanks for pointing it out, I've also been pretty sloppy with hyphen and em-dash in normal…

Should be fixed now. First time hearing about Muphry's Law, definitely gave me a chuckle!

Thanks for flagging the image issue, I think there's an issue with the responsive image serving code that doesn't work consistently across browser. Temporarily disabling that for n…

Refreshing might help (my guess is it might be due to img fallback issue), thanks for flagging this and I'll be investigating!

Thank you! :) and sure!

I was initially dreading that it would be something inefficient like the equation symbol selector in Word, but after viewing the video demo on their website and seeing the speed of…

There are tools (i.e https://mathpix.com/ ) that actually does a pretty great job at LaTeX OCR, although you'll need to re-create labels and the like. I was pleasantly surprised th…

Realized I misunderstood your question. IMO the main design problem with LaTeX from a usage-standpoint is that there are too many ways of achieving the same thing, and oftentimes n…

Great question! Is there a specific domain/example that you have in mind? I don't think people intentionally use archaic language if their goal is to educate and enlighten, but in …