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Re: LaTeX Templates

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Post by pseut »

einhverfr wrote: post #25
joshuagross wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I still haven't figured out if the general trend is up/down for LaTeX (I have a vested interest, CTO of SpanDeX.io, but I'm not sure). My argument against "give it another 10-20 years" is that LaTeX has already been around forever. I know people even in math, physics, and CS that never use LaTeX (in favor of Word). Which I find silly and strange, but it is what it is. Of course, I'm hoping that new online editors lik…

> I still haven't figured out if the general trend is up/down for LaTeX (I have a vested interest, CTO of SpanDeX.io, but I'm not sure). It seems to go around in cycles. There is a very heavy anti-LaTeX movement that I occasionally run into. There are also a lot of people who use it and would not recommend anything else. > My argument against "give it another 10-20 years" is that LaTeX has already been around forever…

The advice to "upgrade" for LaTeX is pretty disappointing given the heavy, heavy emphasis on long-term compatibility for TeX itself.

Re: LaTeX Templates

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Post by emillon »

Tyr42 wrote: post #20

I keep clicking the orange text below the share buttons, trying to get more info. I think it should be a link, to the same place as the title of the template links to. I love it and I'm going to use the code template for my next assignment. You have anything to draw DFAs?

tikz is awesome for this. I believe that DFAs are one of the examples described in the manual.

Re: LaTeX Templates

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Post by primitur »

Wow, the Tufte template is an excellent resource .. I am going to print it and put it right alongside the real Tufte's, its that good! :)

This collection is definitely going to make me use LaTeX one of these days. Of course, I've been saying that for decades now.

Re: LaTeX Templates

#34

Post by anonymouz »

joshuagross wrote: post #12
a_bonobo wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Certainly in an academic environment it continues to surprise me that everyone isn't taught LaTex in their first year of a PhD. I work in a academic environment as well, and I give it another 10-20 years until it will be widespread for everything - currently my supervisors want me to write everything in .doc as they don't know LaTeX and don't want to learn (no time, which I can understand). It's not very widespread…

I still haven't figured out if the general trend is up/down for LaTeX (I have a vested interest, CTO of SpanDeX.io, but I'm not sure). My argument against "give it another 10-20 years" is that LaTeX has already been around forever. I know people even in math, physics, and CS that never use LaTeX (in favor of Word). Which I find silly and strange, but it is what it is. Of course, I'm hoping that new online editors lik…

> Of course, I'm hoping that new online editors like SpanDeX.io and LaTeXTemplates are the adrenaline shot that LaTeX needs for wider adoption.

I am a long-term Latex user and have recently tried one of those online editors. I have two basic gripes with all of them: It's not vim and I don't want to put my papers onto someone else's cloud. Except for that, it seemed nice but the editor itself was a bit sluggish compared to a local program. Continuous compilation is also a good idea, but compared to compilation on my local computer it was just slow enough to drive me insane (wait around for 2-3 seconds every time that I want to see a change...).

But I can imagine that, if they can be made snappy, they would be quite a nice starting point for novice users and people who don't want to maintain a local installation.

Re: LaTeX Templates

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Post by lutusp »

anonymouz wrote: post #34
joshuagross wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I still haven't figured out if the general trend is up/down for LaTeX (I have a vested interest, CTO of SpanDeX.io, but I'm not sure). My argument against "give it another 10-20 years" is that LaTeX has already been around forever. I know people even in math, physics, and CS that never use LaTeX (in favor of Word). Which I find silly and strange, but it is what it is. Of course, I'm hoping that new online editors lik…

> Of course, I'm hoping that new online editors like SpanDeX.io and LaTeXTemplates are the adrenaline shot that LaTeX needs for wider adoption. I am a long-term Latex user and have recently tried one of those online editors. I have two basic gripes with all of them: It's not vim and I don't want to put my papers onto someone else's cloud. Except for that, it seemed nice but the editor itself was a bit sluggish compar…

> I am a long-term Latex user and have recently tried one of those online editors. I have two basic gripes with all of them: It's not vim and I don't want to put my papers onto someone else's cloud.

Fair enough -- use Lyx. It's free and open source. It doesn't require you to take the security and other risks of a cloud scheme.

http://www.lyx.org/

I don't understand why more people don't use Lyx for Latex production. It's not as slick as some Web-based apps, but it also doesn't have their drawbacks.

Re: LaTeX Templates

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Post by adimitrov »

lutusp wrote: post #35
anonymouz wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Of course, I'm hoping that new online editors like SpanDeX.io and LaTeXTemplates are the adrenaline shot that LaTeX needs for wider adoption. I am a long-term Latex user and have recently tried one of those online editors. I have two basic gripes with all of them: It's not vim and I don't want to put my papers onto someone else's cloud. Except for that, it seemed nice but the editor itself was a bit sluggish compar…

> I am a long-term Latex user and have recently tried one of those online editors. I have two basic gripes with all of them: It's not vim and I don't want to put my papers onto someone else's cloud. Fair enough -- use Lyx. It's free and open source. It doesn't require you to take the security and other risks of a cloud scheme. http://www.lyx.org/ I don't understand why more people don't use Lyx for Latex production.…

> I don't understand why more people don't use Lyx for Latex production.

LyX is still not Vim. Or Emacs, for that matter. That may sound a little closed-minded, but when you basically spend your entire life in one editor (as a programmer) adapting to a different editor is a big pain, and very frustrating, because nothing works the way you expected it.

In my experience emulation of these editors in others is shoddy at best (I'm looking at you, SublimeText.) Not to mention I'm losing my favorite plugins, that I've grown used to. The only acceptable Vim emulation I've seen is Evil — for Emacs. And even there I couldn't stand to use it.

Re: LaTeX Templates

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Post by Surio »

lutusp wrote: post #35
anonymouz wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Of course, I'm hoping that new online editors like SpanDeX.io and LaTeXTemplates are the adrenaline shot that LaTeX needs for wider adoption. I am a long-term Latex user and have recently tried one of those online editors. I have two basic gripes with all of them: It's not vim and I don't want to put my papers onto someone else's cloud. Except for that, it seemed nice but the editor itself was a bit sluggish compar…

> I am a long-term Latex user and have recently tried one of those online editors. I have two basic gripes with all of them: It's not vim and I don't want to put my papers onto someone else's cloud. Fair enough -- use Lyx. It's free and open source. It doesn't require you to take the security and other risks of a cloud scheme. http://www.lyx.org/ I don't understand why more people don't use Lyx for Latex production.…

I don't have a problem about "geeking out" with LaTeX `\' slashes, but frankly, what you mention about LyX is right. Thought you might appreciate this writeup by someone else who also agrees on your LyX viewpoint....

http://yihui.name/en/2012/10/lyx-vs-latex/

Enjoy the read.

Re: LaTeX Templates

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Post by lutusp »

adimitrov wrote: post #37
lutusp wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I am a long-term Latex user and have recently tried one of those online editors. I have two basic gripes with all of them: It's not vim and I don't want to put my papers onto someone else's cloud. Fair enough -- use Lyx. It's free and open source. It doesn't require you to take the security and other risks of a cloud scheme. http://www.lyx.org/ I don't understand why more people don't use Lyx for Latex production.…

> I don't understand why more people don't use Lyx for Latex production. LyX is still not Vim. Or Emacs, for that matter. That may sound a little closed-minded, but when you basically spend your entire life in one editor (as a programmer) adapting to a different editor is a big pain, and very frustrating, because nothing works the way you expected it. In my experience emulation of these editors in others is shoddy at…

> LyX is still not Vim. Or Emacs, for that matter.

All true. It took a while for me to be productive with Lyx -- it's too different from most other editing environments. In fact, one of the first things they say in their documentation is that Lyx isn't a text editor -- it's really meant for document creation, not everyday editing. So that's an entirely valid criticism.

Nevertheless, after one ascends the difficult learning curve, the results can be beautiful, classic LaTex output, with little effort.

Re: LaTeX Templates

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Post by jahewson »

alexholehouse wrote: post #5

I use LaTex for a lot of my note taking (for typesetting all equations certainly). When I first started using it, I remember the absolute horror of trying to get it to work with BibTex. The learning curve is relatively steep for non-programmers (I learnt it basically in parallel with learning to code) but it's certainly one of the most valuable tools I've learned and one I continually come back to for a huge range of…

Some days I feel like my PhD is in LaTeX, with some computer science on the side.
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