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minus-squaremlg@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·2 days ago“I love typing in ten thousand pounds of syntatic sugar” – me, an idiot who used embedded images for formulas in a markdown file which gets converted into a PDF “Totally way easier than LaTeX, I swear”
minus-squarefbr@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up14·2 days agoYou may benefit from checking out Typst which gives all of the benefits (and some more) of LaTeX, but without all of the syntax garbage.
minus-squaremlg@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 days agoActually learned about this recently too and it looks really cool, but haven’t had to use latex in a while so I’ll defnitley give it a shot next time I have to do document generation
“I love typing in ten thousand pounds of syntatic sugar”
– me, an idiot who used embedded images for formulas in a markdown file which gets converted into a PDF
“Totally way easier than LaTeX, I swear”
You may benefit from checking out Typst which gives all of the benefits (and some more) of LaTeX, but without all of the syntax garbage.
Actually learned about this recently too and it looks really cool, but haven’t had to use latex in a while so I’ll defnitley give it a shot next time I have to do document generation