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sample size seems small but im no expert
I used it for resumes and assignments in school. Like others said I wasn’t trying to save time but to make things look more professional.
Storing text in binary formats like word docs instead of plain text like latex makes git version control unusable.
This is an outrage! 🧐
I’ve been questioning the benefits every time someone insisted that I should use latex. Now I have scientific evidence that it won’t make my life better!
Use latex. It will make your life better.
Well, latex users reported enjoying the software, so I will give you that credit.
Typst >>>>>.
But still, Word sucks ass.
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Thanks Satan !
Just write everything in markdown and use pandoc to type set.
.md .tex .md
That is what Obsidian is for.
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How dare they!?
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latex exists to make your text look more professional, not to make you more productive, duh.
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Clearly flawed methodology.
The value of LaTeX isn’t productivity when making a single document.
The value of LaTeX is productivity when you need to reuse past work, or update it with the latest data and figures, or make a collection of similar documents.
Exactly. Give them a bunch of setup, let them set it up as normal.
Then tell everyone to resize the second pictures and move all images from the side of the page to the right. Then see who does it first.
And the ease with which you can generate hundreds of lines of page with a simple text template and code.
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Yup. When I rerun my things, in latex I just overwrite the plots file (pdf/png) and compile latex. In word I have to find where it was and replace it there. It’s way easier on latex if you make your code just write plot files in the same location.
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Yup simlink is so nice. I sometimes use it for color vs monocrome plots. Change simlink and compile. Although I learned you can also use if statements in latex, I use that now.
needs more jpeg.
but on a serious note, how do you version control an msoffice/libreoffice document? you can’t just put it in git, the repo will get huge quickly
I think libreoffice has an uncompressed format for version control if I remember correctly
docx is just a zip of xml files. if you add some hooks to git, you could make it unzip it, commit the xml files, then when checking out rezip it into a docx automatically.
Thanks, I hate it
git hooks! Totally forgot it, that sounds interesting
I’m imagining what it would be like to write a page long {align} in word and it’s terrifying.
Well, duh, I obviously learned LaTeX only to be less productive and procrastinate more. And when I was getting somewhere with it, I had to switch to RMarkdown instead to be able to procrastinate even more! Imagine actually having to think about the content of your work, ugh :/
Maybe it takes more time because it allows more editing control over the finished product. The report of an enjoyable user experience for latex would back this up since users were able to produce what they wanted instead of being limited to using words jank as editing and just giving up or using a shitty template. Test against plain text entry I bet there is a positive correlation between limited features and total word count
