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    [–] khelmr@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago

    The safe-word is overfull \hbox (badness 10000)

    [–] Otakeb@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

    Lmao my femdom, math undergrad fiance in a nutshell.

    [–] kihasu@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

    At work I wanted to do a pdf with a form on it in LaTeX. I thought i need a input mask. So I put "Latex mask" into google. I realized my mistake the moment i pressed enter but it was too late. Was the joke of my work group for at least a month.

    [–] George@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

    Average LaTeX \emph{enjoyer}

    [–] joneskind@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

    She's probably using Bootcamp for even more pain

    [–] spacesweedkid27@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    πŸ€“ well atschually it's "LaTeX" πŸ€“

    [–] CIWS-30@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

    inbw GNU LaTeX.

    [–] AffineConnection@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Actually, it’s

    ^L^~A~^T^~E~^X^

    [–] lipidi9522@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

    Once you go latex, you can't go back..

    [–] s6original@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

    Can't use it. I'm allergic.

    [–] coygsu@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

    Makes me wanna \addtolength{\topmargin}{4.5in}

    No amount of pushing, suggestions, features lists, demonstrations, whatever has actually encouraged me any toward using LaTeX.
    ... Until now.

    [–] Stilicho@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Is this popular? Never heard of this before.

    [–] Thwompthwomp@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

    You "compile" papers into a camera-ready final form. It handles like page references, figure numbering, citations, etc. There's also a rich package system for extending features. Most people use it for its math typesetting features, which is now a fairly common way to write math expressions (mathjax, word's equation editor can understand latex, markdown). More fun, you can write your own macros and have some pretty rich commands and features.

    Latex is very common in math and physics departments, and somewhat common in CS and ECE departments. It's still mostly for academic writing (papers and books), although because its plain-text and scriptable, its pretty nice for other types of documentation where you can bring in tons of things via a makefile.

    [–] DonJefe@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

    LateX is very popular to write academic and scientific papers. It has a great support for mathematical formulas and every formatting option conceivable. I love it because it allows you to write papers using only your keyboard (no need for clicking 20 times to find the option in a menu). It's written as code, and then compiled into whatever format you'd like to use (pdf, etc)

    [–] Stilicho@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Hmmm interesting, might check it out later

    [–] Dr_Nope@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

    In my academic work in France iymt was quite popular (at least in computer science & Mathematics field). But it was like 7 years ago, not sure about the current state of affairs.

    [–] Celivalg@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 points 2 years ago

    Still use it at least in CS for reports and specifications of a project

    [–] garconip@lemmy.world -2 points 2 years ago

    Agree. For my taste, she looks average.

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