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[โ€“] hunter2@sh.itjust.works 52 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Bonuspoints if it keeps being borked after undoing the last change. Certified Microsoft moment ๐Ÿ˜Ž

[โ€“] Track_Shovel 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

My fight right now is with figure cross references inserting the whole fucking figure in the text body.

I know how to fix it, but it's a pain.

[โ€“] affiliate@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

I know how to fix it, but it's a pain.

this is a perfect description of the microsoft office experience

[โ€“] Sir_Premiumhengst@lemmy.world 44 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Laughs in LaTeX.

[โ€“] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 11 months ago

Laughs in more advanced Word/Libre skills.

[โ€“] Andrew15_5@mander.xyz 4 points 11 months ago

Laughs in Typst.

[โ€“] Dingleberry@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Is latex better than Libre?

[โ€“] Sir_Premiumhengst@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Depends on who you ask... LaTeX is a typesetting system that uses plain text commands to format and structure documents. Has a bit of a learning curve. It also (usually) does exactly what you ask it for.

[โ€“] Dingleberry@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

So, maybe not worth teaching the in laws, but could be adapted for personal use with some practice?

[โ€“] rainerloeten@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Depends on what you wanna do. Also it's a matter of preferences. For anything more complex than a simple letter or a table I'm using Latex. But although I love Latex, I must acknowledge that for some it's not the right tool.

It has advantages and disadvantages as everything in life ;) Ask your favorite search engine or LLM what those are, I don't feel qualified to elaborate on that.

[โ€“] gornius@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

It's a go to solution for scientific papers.

[โ€“] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 31 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Me trying to move tables and figures around in Word:

[โ€“] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

We need to bring back '90s hats.

[โ€“] theFibonacciEffect@feddit.de 19 points 11 months ago

Me in LaTeX: [H!], please be where I want you to be!

[โ€“] Beefytootz@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago

Pro-tip, at least when I last used Word, hold alt when dragging and dropping images. It somehow fixed the brokenness of the default way of doing it. I think this still works, I just haven't had to type anything up in like 5-10 years, of the stuff I have, I don't think I've ever had to include an image.

[โ€“] Pantherina@feddit.de 13 points 11 months ago

This is the Moment for the Latex or Typst people!

[โ€“] BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 11 months ago

https://www.johndcook.com/wordvslatex.gif

[โ€“] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

I've actually been enjoying using just straight up markdown to create documents..sleek, portable, simple, I love it.

[โ€“] iAmTheTot@kbin.social 0 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Wouldn't happen if you use formatting tools correctly.

[โ€“] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 14 points 11 months ago

Don't blame me. I voted for Clippy.

[โ€“] Track_Shovel 8 points 11 months ago

I'm actually pretty good at formating. Just found this funny

[โ€“] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Rarely happened to me either.

If it happened it was usually due to me creating a design problem beforehand.