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Jeder neocat_floof_googly_woozy neocat_flag_agender @jeder@miau.jeder.pl
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why do people use latex
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Tóth Gábor Baltazár @tthbaltazar@chaos.social
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@jeder shiny
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141421 @jsmi@mastodon.social
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@jeder When I take notes in Obsidian, what you put in between dollar signs gets interpreted as MathJax (which is like tiny LaTeX) and I get nicely formatted maths notation in my otherwise very normal text editor
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ari prideified @ar@is-a.cat
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@jeder Because whenever I try using a wysiwyg editor, like libreoffice writer, or msword, what I get is an incomprehensible mess of inconsistent formatting, that ends up being almost 8MiB. And my CV, which I initially wrote back in 2008, and just update ever since, still renders perfectly fine .pdf files that weigh under 40KiB
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Jeder neocat_floof_googly_woozy neocat_flag_agender @jeder@miau.jeder.pl
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@ar ok mr coder
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Jeder neocat_floof_googly_woozy neocat_flag_agender @jeder@miau.jeder.pl
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@ar also i'd lose that file like 30 times by now anyway
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ari prideified @ar@is-a.cat
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@jeder I would too, if I didn't keep it in git in several places!
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ari prideified @ar@is-a.cat
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@jeder I'm not saying I would be able to write it again from scratch. I just copy-paste, essentially, this:
\employer{\bf …}
\title{\bf Systems Administrator}
\dates{2011/12 -- 2013/04}
\location{}
\begin{position}
   …
\end{position}
\\
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luna the doggie neofox_snug therian @lunareclipse@snug.moe
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@jeder if you mean LaTeX and not the material some gloves are made of, I mainly use it when I need to deal with a lot of math equations because it's so much faster to write those in LaTeX compared to WYSIWYG editors like MS Word
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⑨chase cirno_comfy チェイス @chase@cocaine.moe
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@jeder I use it with Emacs at work to make standard operating procedure documents and shit. I made a custom class for it so I can write just the content, run the export, and get a nice looking PDF without having to think about formatting
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@jeder equations XOR pretentiousness
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