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Re: LaTeX Templates

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Post by jahewson »

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 used LyX for about a year and in that time it tuned from a dream into a nightmare. The problem is that at some point if your typesetting is complex then you need some LaTeX package that LyX doesn't support and have to resort to inline TeX code. The horrid LaTeX code that LyX generates does not play nice and a huge amount of time gets wasted trying to find a LyX-friendly way to express something which would have been a few lines of LaTeX. Don't even get me started on Lyx's Rube Goldberg support for custom document classes.

Re: LaTeX Templates

#42

Post by olliesaunders »

ovis wrote: post #23
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…

I learned LaTeX the summer after my undergrad, and rely on it now. Nevertheless, I'm not surprised that few others in my department, outside of my group, use it. When work needs to be shared or collaborated on, the simplest, lowest common denominator (Word or LO) wins out.

What’s LO?

Re: LaTeX Templates

#43

Post by fafner »

einhverfr wrote: post #8

One of the occasional arguments we've had in the LedgerSMB community is whether to ditch LaTeX. The arguments in favor have to do with UTF8 support and internationalization, and the fact that 'everybody knows alternatives!' In the end we've opted to keep it because LaTeX is so good at doing what it does, and because our dependencies can be hacked to use XeTeX (for UTF-8 input) and so we are working to ensure that XeT…

pdflatex can handle UTF8 as well:

    \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
    \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

Re: LaTeX Templates

#44

Post by gjulianm »

olliesaunders wrote: post #42
ovis wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I learned LaTeX the summer after my undergrad, and rely on it now. Nevertheless, I'm not surprised that few others in my department, outside of my group, use it. When work needs to be shared or collaborated on, the simplest, lowest common denominator (Word or LO) wins out.

What’s LO?

LibreOffice, I suppose.

Re: LaTeX Templates

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Post by lutusp »

jahewson wrote: post #41
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 used LyX for about a year and in that time it tuned from a dream into a nightmare. The problem is that at some point if your typesetting is complex then you need some LaTeX package that LyX doesn't support and have to resort to inline TeX code. The horrid LaTeX code that LyX generates does not play nice and a huge amount of time gets wasted trying to find a LyX-friendly way to express something which would have bee…

Your use of Lyx is of longer duration and at a deeper level than mine, so ... thank you for posting.

Re: LaTeX Templates

#46

Post by [deleted] »

primitur wrote: post #33

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.

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Re: LaTeX Templates

#47

Post by swah »

primitur wrote: post #33

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.

I wonder though, where was the "real Tufte" typeset?

Re: LaTeX Templates

#49

Post by einhverfr »

fafner wrote: post #43
einhverfr wrote: post #8

One of the occasional arguments we've had in the LedgerSMB community is whether to ditch LaTeX. The arguments in favor have to do with UTF8 support and internationalization, and the fact that 'everybody knows alternatives!' In the end we've opted to keep it because LaTeX is so good at doing what it does, and because our dependencies can be hacked to use XeTeX (for UTF-8 input) and so we are working to ensure that XeT…

pdflatex can handle UTF8 as well: \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

We haven't had a lot of luck using that for utf8. Also the character set is relatively limited (can't do Korean characters for example that way).

Re: LaTeX Templates

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Post by einhverfr »

daemon13 wrote: post #24

Is my understanding correct that LaTex can not handle UTF-8?

There are a number of ways to handle UTF-8 in LaTeX, but the methods are all somewhat irritating in various ways.

I haven't had a lot of luck with inputenc. My understanding is that it breaks things up into escape sequences internally which is neat but doesn't give you some things that would be nice because your default fonts don't support it.

I have used xetex a bit more and found it more helpful. However it has some other rough corners

Luatex also handles UTF8 natively. Answer is "it's complicated." And hence your solutions depend entirely on what you are trying to do.

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