• toynbee@lemmy.world
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      Last 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.

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        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.

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          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.

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            I wrote latex template files that the markdown rendered into, that way I could use my own macros and styles.