LaTeX Makes Me Angry
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LaTeX Makes Me Angry
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Re: LaTeX Makes Me Angry
#2This is less a complaint about LaTeX and more a complaint about tooling.
Re: LaTeX Makes Me Angry
#3then find other or better tools than LaTeX to use?
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#4On more than one occasion I have started writing a paper draft in Sublime + Markdown because the scaffolding of LaTeX felt too distracting.
Eventually you need to actually build the real document though.
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#5I've build MonsterWriter [1] to fight the LaTeX struggles.
In Word, you are stuck in a write format, write format cycle. In LaTeX, you are stuck in a write google, write google cycle. We deserve to have a write, write, write, write cycle!
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#6Re: LaTeX Makes Me Angry
#7Title doesn't match, it's ripped from the first paragraph which really doesn't encompass the theme of the article. The article is more tips for writing manuscripts in tex without getting sucked down rabbit holes
Recently had to track down and update my resume. When I finally found it I was able to quickly add last few years of updates on the commandline and run xelatex and done. It took much longer to track down the files than to update and ship it off, that is why I like latex. Building latex docs from scratch is incredibly daunting, fortunately there are many templates and often they are mandated for use.
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#8On more than one occasion I have started writing a paper draft in Sublime + Markdown because the scaffolding of LaTeX felt too distracting. Eventually you need to actually build the real document though.
Export from Emacs org mode to LaTeX. org mode offers plenty of flexibility to tweak the final output and lets you focus on writing.
Edit: and creating tables in org mode is _so_ much better than in plain LaTeX. If you find yourself manually working on tables, the Emacs + org mode combo is worth investing time in.
Re: LaTeX Makes Me Angry
#9On more than one occasion I have started writing a paper draft in Sublime + Markdown because the scaffolding of LaTeX felt too distracting. Eventually you need to actually build the real document though.
You may like Texmacs.
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#10I write LaTeX documents in VSCode because there's a syntax highlight plugin there for it. If I could, I would write in Sublime Text, because it's faster. However, no Sublime Text plugin for LaTeX exists.
Unfortunately, the thing I would like most is a complete replacement for LaTeX that offers these features:
* Text-based - no binary file formats
* A unique DSL for all features
* Complete control over layout and formatting
* Complete control over typography (alignment, leading, kerning, spacing, document grid alignment, etc.)
* Support for tables, including captions, headers, styling, and the ability to span multiple pages
* Support for images and image formatting (resizing, borders, alignment, margins, etc.)
* Reusable libraries/packages
* A package management system (de-emphasis on this one because good package management systems are... difficult to make)