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    Context: LaTeX is a typesetting system. When compiling a document, a lot of really in-depth debugging information is printed, which can be borderline incomprehensible to anyone but LaTeX experts. It can also be a visual hindrance when looking for important information like errors.

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    [–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 107 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (29 children)

    LaTeX is soo great! You don’t have to worry about formatting ever again.

    Puts image I’m talking about 8 pages away from the section that talks about the image

    Writes not only over the margin, but over the goddamn page boundary because adding a page was not fashionable that day

    Moves a table left by 1 cm on every other compilation, moves it back in the other compilations (happened to a colleague)

    So instead of worrying about formatting you worry about learning the incantations that force LaTeX at gunpoint not to fuck up the formatting.

    [–] renzev@lemmy.world 56 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

    Compiler: Could not find "tikz.sty"

    Me: So you want me to install the package called "tikz"?

    Compiler: no, there's no package called tikz. I need the file called "tikz.sty"

    Me: Okay then, so which package provides the "tikz.sty" file?

    Compiler: fuck if I know, go google it or something ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    Switched to typst a few months ago, enjoying it much more than LaTeX so far. Really excited to see how it will grow in the future

    [–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 62 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

    Yeees, I forgot all about the non-existent module system.

    – Professor: Here’s the template for your thesis.

    – There are, like, 50 lines of macro imports here. Which modules does this need?

    – Fuck if I know. You want my installation? It’s only 50GB.

    [–] turmoil@feddit.org 8 points 4 months ago

    Just let me use the university wide template everyone uses instead of having a dedicated template for your department that looks like shit, uses a shitty ass font, and integrates packages I despise. god fucking dammit

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