• udon@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      I’ve seen this floating around a few times but am too tired to invest energy into this specific hype train. What exactly makes it stand apart from latex or markdown (then pandoced into latex)? Genuine question. I think once you’ve found your way around Latex, the major pain IMHO is whenever you apply it for a new use case and need to find out which packages to load that are not outdated. Ah, and alt text for images. But AFAIR this is already mostly solved, just not shipped widely yet.

      Pros of Latex I think are important to keep in mind:

      • it works since ever and for probably the rest of all our careers
      • there is an established community
      • the codebase doesn’t change on a whim
      • starman@programming.dev
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        3 months ago

        I believe I can’t help you with this, because my motivations behind using it are different. I’ve only used latex for fun before, and now I use typst instead of regular word processor, whenever I need to create a PDF.

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      3 months ago

      Wow. This looks fantastic. I remember using LaTeX and having a love/hate relationship.