It takes 3 hours because it’s only available as a torrent shared at 56 kbps, then you have to stand up vs code. Then figure out how to setup a compiler, get a bunch of different plugs, then learn the magic commands to compile a document.
It seemed very not user friendly.
I work in IT and I had so much trouble.
How people think my Grandma is going to swap from Word to this is beyond me. She can’t even figure Word out.
In Linux install a LaTeX editor like texstudio + texlive full.
On windows texstudio + miktex i think it was called.
Then is just about learning the syntax and getting accustomed to using it, maybe write some macros, overall no more than an hour setting it up, and using it a couple of days to getting used to it so you write fast.
You comically overcomplicated yourself lol.
And is not for grandma (unless she’s in academia) is for people who write mostly technical stuff or in general text documments that are everything but plain text.
Has anyone actually tried LaTex? Because Ho Lee Fuck.
Took me like 8 hours from download to compile of my first document on Windows, and it fucking failed to compile.
Oh and it seems the generated files have trouble with ATs systems so that’s fantastic. I built a pretty resume that never makes it into anyone’s hands
I wrote my entire undergrad project in it first time so yeah.
For the time period it came out, I am very impressed a program can position everything without bugs.
Like you would expect it to surely miscalculate whatever layout magic is going on when writing math fornulas.
There’s a relatively new latex replacement, which is much easier to use, although its ecosystem is not as complete (obviously)
https://typst.app/
(The CLI tools are OpenSource and independent from the GUI thing they sell)
Yeah, I wrote my thesis in it. As a programmer it made total sense to me.
Its quite professional looking but good god smite my ass if I ever have to use it again
Yes?
I use it all the time.
Seems a skill issue on your behalf honestly, I gave no idea how could possibly take that long.
It takes 3 hours because it’s only available as a torrent shared at 56 kbps, then you have to stand up vs code. Then figure out how to setup a compiler, get a bunch of different plugs, then learn the magic commands to compile a document.
It seemed very not user friendly.
I work in IT and I had so much trouble.
How people think my Grandma is going to swap from Word to this is beyond me. She can’t even figure Word out.
Or you can not do that.
In Linux install a LaTeX editor like texstudio + texlive full.
On windows texstudio + miktex i think it was called.
Then is just about learning the syntax and getting accustomed to using it, maybe write some macros, overall no more than an hour setting it up, and using it a couple of days to getting used to it so you write fast.
You comically overcomplicated yourself lol.
And is not for grandma (unless she’s in academia) is for people who write mostly technical stuff or in general text documments that are everything but plain text.