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minus-squarepanda_abyss@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up39·4 days agoI would use word for this, but I can’t close vim. I guess I’m learning LaTeX.
minus-squaretoynbee@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up26·4 days agoLast night, I was talking to my brother - who’s a mathematician by trade - and learned the following from him: LaTeX is Leslie Lamport’s (hence La) macro package on top of TeX. I’ve never used it, but for around fifteen years I’ve been working around people who do … And yet I never knew that.
minus-squarea_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 days agoThat is some professional grade typesetting there.
minus-squarepanda_abyss@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up12·4 days agoI used it a lot for university… and I did not know that. I did migrate to pandoc and markdown for a lot of stuff, with custom template files.
minus-squaretoynbee@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·4 days agoAn abyssal panda using pandoc. Who could have seen it coming. Markdown is very useful, but I don’t think I’ve ever written enough to earn template files. My brother is one of the two smartest people I know and knows a lot of things I didn’t know I didn’t know. He’s earned a lot of respect from me.
minus-squarepanda_abyss@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up4·4 days agoI wrote latex template files that the markdown rendered into, that way I could use my own macros and styles.
minus-squarepanda_abyss@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up9·3 days agoSend help, I ran :term vim, now I’m double stuck
I would use word for this, but I can’t close vim. I guess I’m learning LaTeX.
Last night, I was talking to my brother - who’s a mathematician by trade - and learned the following from him:
I’ve never used it, but for around fifteen years I’ve been working around people who do … And yet I never knew that.
That is some professional grade typesetting there.
I used it a lot for university… and I did not know that.
I did migrate to pandoc and markdown for a lot of stuff, with custom template files.
An abyssal panda using pandoc. Who could have seen it coming.
Markdown is very useful, but I don’t think I’ve ever written enough to earn template files.
My brother is one of the two smartest people I know and knows a lot of things I didn’t know I didn’t know. He’s earned a lot of respect from me.
I wrote latex template files that the markdown rendered into, that way I could use my own macros and styles.
:termyour way to freedomSend help, I ran
:term vim, now I’m double stuck