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geekhack Community => Other Geeky Stuff => Topic started by: ideus on Fri, 19 February 2016, 07:21:37
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I wonder if some of you guys do use Latex to write.
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Yup, if you mean LaTeX. I'm not a fan though. I prefer to use pandoc's extended Markdown with LaTeX formulas¹ and export it to LaTeX only when necessary, because various (La)TeX templates are often mandatory in academia.
¹ because they're widely supported, even by some JavaScript rendering libraries, and I can make use of tools such as detexify.kirelabs.org
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Thought this was a tp thread based on the title...
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I have used both Latex and LaTeX, but not recently.
In college, I wrote most assignments and my thesis in LaTeX. Just don't expect me to remember anything though.
I have cast Darth Maul's horns in Latex, but other than that I have had more failures than successes.
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LaTeX all day every day. I'm writing my dissertation, so I mean it literally. I just put a third digit on my page count a few days ago, even with all of my pictures hidden using
\PassOptionsToPackage{demo}{graphicx}.
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I sleep on latex, I don't think that is what you meant though.
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(http://i.imgur.com/ezHPmJT.gif)
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I meant the typesetting system LaTeX.
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only when I feel kinky, stay safe kids seriously.....
I google'd to make sure what you meant. First result was fine but images :eek:
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Used to back when I was uni, swore by it :thumb:
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Not this:
(http://i.imgur.com/nilntJp.jpg)
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Used it for all of my papers in college, was fun. Not sure I have much of a use of it now, most software documentation works very well as a set of HTML pages.
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I used to use latex. Then my wife got pregnant.
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One of the guys at work was really pushing LaTeX a couple of years ago, but it never caught on.
We had to install a package son our computers in order to build his app, which included LaTeX documentation, and the install was > 1GB :eek:
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I meant the typesetting system LaTeX.
LaTeX is only a format for TeX.
We had to install a package son our computers in order to build his app, which included LaTeX documentation, and the install was > 1GB :eek:
Do you know, that major TeX distributions let you pick what you want to install? TeX Live is very modular and MiKTeX even installs most components only on-demand.
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I just began using it for a paper I should submit soon, I found that the final draft is very cool, it looks like a book, beautifully crafted; but, the start was a huge headache. Now, that I solved most of the first problems, I should continue using it, it was that hard that I should take advantage of the time and pain I suffered to begin using this Tex thing.
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I meant the typesetting system LaTeX.
LaTeX is only a format for TeX.
We had to install a package son our computers in order to build his app, which included LaTeX documentation, and the install was > 1GB :eek:
Do you know, that major TeX distributions let you pick what you want to install? TeX Live is very modular and MiKTeX even installs most components only on-demand.
We just installed the packages he recommended, which came to a bit over 1GB.
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I use it daily. Although in the social sciences we are OBLIGED to submit in .doc or .docx (yeah, for real wtf), I use it for everything else. I recently wrote a stats book in LaTeX. It was awesome: figures to pdf using R, the rest all 100% latex. It was awesome, especially how beautiful formulas look.
For the courses I teach, I render formulas to PDF and then put them onto my keynote presentations. It looks so crisp.
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I use it daily. Although in the social sciences we are OBLIGED to submit in .doc or .docx (yeah, for real wtf), I use it for everything else. I recently wrote a stats book in LaTeX. It was awesome: figures to pdf using R, the rest all 100% latex. It was awesome, especially how beautiful formulas look.
For the courses I teach, I render formulas to PDF and then put them onto my keynote presentations. It looks so crisp.
Good tip, I became a bit tired to use mathtype for that.