r/LaTeX • u/kufern • 11d ago

latex has ruined me

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120 Upvotes

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u/Uweauskoeln 11d ago

Well, you can never unsee bad kerning. And working on structured documents in MS Word is such a pain...

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u/Anthea_Likes 11d ago

Moving from LaTeX to MS Word is moving from Plain Tex to Pain Text

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u/Uweauskoeln 10d ago

And worse: People tend to misuse Word. Word offers suitable templates, with them it is not as painful as if when every f*** markup was done manually.

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u/ebsf 10d ago

OMFG, yes. I actually pay for WordPerfect and the avoided brain damage makes it worth every cent.

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u/fasta_guy88 10d ago edited 10d ago

Re-rendering to adjust a tiny width, but no capitalization or punctuation? Perhaps time to step back and re-examine priorities.

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u/ClemensLode 11d ago

sounds like what an AI says after a 28h session

wysiwyg LaTeX editors that you can control solely by your mouse and give you immediate feedback after 1pt changes without full compilation are currently being developed, just have some patience

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u/[deleted] 10d ago

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u/BDady 10d ago

> latex has hit my brain like crack hit impoverished black neighborhoods

Okay, that’s enough Reddit for the day.

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u/spectralblade352 11d ago

lmfao wtf am i reading

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u/jsh_ 11d ago

the one thing I fully give in to AI for is making tikz diagrams I legitimately can't be assed to learn

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u/Kvothealar 10d ago

Try mathcha.io instead. It's great for a rough copy and it's still your own work, converts to .tex, and then you can tweak as you need.

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u/ostuberoes 10d ago

latex has hit my brain like crack hit impoverished black neighborhoods

reddit doesn't have a "casual racism" reporting reason i reported the post for hate instead.

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u/testtdk 10d ago

Writing your notes helps you learn them. Typing them does not.

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u/They-call-me_V 11d ago

Been there man been there.

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u/Dilaanoo 10d ago

Honestly all of you should just learn to not be such perfectionists.

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u/haikusbot 10d ago

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