Now. Why am I wrong for Libre

  • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    23 hours ago

    Using word for a thesis sounds like a nightmare I would never dare to do

    For big projects like that, stuff like LaTeX is so much better in my experience, you could even set up version control for it with, say, git, or similar

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      22 hours 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”

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        22 hours ago

        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.

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          22 hours ago

          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

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      21 hours ago

      I actually wrote most of it in Obsidian, just copied all of it to Word for final edits because I have to use my school’s docx template.

      Definitely trying LaTeX if I end up getting another degree, only learned about it a few days ago. And I just now realized that I could’ve used git with Obsidian this whole time…