Bonuspoints if it keeps being borked after undoing the last change. Certified Microsoft moment ๐
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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.
I know how to fix it, but it's a pain.
this is a perfect description of the microsoft office experience
Laughs in LaTeX.
Laughs in more advanced Word/Libre skills.
Laughs in Typst.
Is latex better than Libre?
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.
So, maybe not worth teaching the in laws, but could be adapted for personal use with some practice?
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.
It's a go to solution for scientific papers.
Me trying to move tables and figures around in Word:
We need to bring back '90s hats.
Me in LaTeX: [H!], please be where I want you to be!
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.
This is the Moment for the Latex or Typst people!
I've actually been enjoying using just straight up markdown to create documents..sleek, portable, simple, I love it.
Wouldn't happen if you use formatting tools correctly.
Don't blame me. I voted for Clippy.
I'm actually pretty good at formating. Just found this funny
Rarely happened to me either.
If it happened it was usually due to me creating a design problem beforehand.