Even in undergrad, I swear using good LyX templates nets you half a grade just for beautiful presentation. And if you throw Zotero in there for the automated citation management, it’s glorious for research papers.
No. If you format aomething in latex it will look like you want. Word and even libre writer will just mess up formatting at the slightest inconvenience
.md files are agnostic and can be read by pretty much anything. I care for the content to be preserved, the “look” can be handled later. Considering sloppification,Data preservation and accessibility should be held to a premium at this point.
Same. LibreOffice and Latex
LaTeX, really? Its like evil markdown.
If you want to typeset math, yes really. And IMO formatting control in LaTeX is unmatched and then some in word processors.
Plus TikZ is incredible.
It’s mark-phd-down, that’s why it’s not easy to start with.
Best name ever. My issue is that its not very read friendly. (Had quite a headache doing papers in it.)
Switched to Typst and love it. I’d say I use LibreOffice much less because of Typst.
Thx ill ckeck it out (and tx to the other typst folks, just too tired to keep replying )
Wait. There are other Typst folks? I don’t see the comments!
At least “back in my day” there was no alternative if you wanted to write a paper (or a thesis).
Even in undergrad, I swear using good LyX templates nets you half a grade just for beautiful presentation. And if you throw Zotero in there for the automated citation management, it’s glorious for research papers.
In my day we used bibtex, uphill, in the snow!
No. If you format aomething in latex it will look like you want. Word and even libre writer will just mess up formatting at the slightest inconvenience
.md files are agnostic and can be read by pretty much anything. I care for the content to be preserved, the “look” can be handled later. Considering sloppification,Data preservation and accessibility should be held to a premium at this point.
lmao real