- eRac ( @eRac@lemmings.world ) English23•1 month ago
It might make me smarter, but it makes me feel dumb.
- curbstickle ( @curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English11•1 month ago
A long while ago, I used to use kdissert (now semantik) to make all my white papers, from mind map to document, generating latex out, fine tune, and just gorgeous.
Then I was forced to put them in word and hand it off to our graphics design people to put it into InDesign.
I think I’m going to try semantik for more than mind maps again.
- buttfarts ( @buttfarts@lemy.lol ) English4•1 month ago
Let’s take a grainy photo of your oil painting and then filter it
- drail ( @drail@fedia.io ) 9•1 month ago
I did all my Quantum Field Theory homework in Latex, the professor required it. My classmates would write everything out by hand and then transcribe it, meanwhile my officemate and I could think/write/math in Latex, so we only had to write our homework once. The prof lifted the requirement halfway through the semester after everyone else complained, but I never looked back.
The only thing that prevented a 100% Latex-only semester was the goddam section where we had to draw Wick diagrams. There just wasn’t a reliable way to draw them on my computer, as the Feynman diagram tools stuggled with the nuances of Wick diagrams. I still included the hand-drawn versions as figures in Latex, but it felt like cheating.
I did figure out how to write the Wick’s theorem bracket notation in Latex though (not that I’ll ever need to again), so that made up for it a bit. I wager that I spent more time researching obscure Latex packages than actually solving the problems that semester.
I love Latex so much, I even made a template for generating profesional looking DND item cards for my table that I submitted to overleaf: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/d-and-d-item-card-template/ndfdspmmxnrn
- jpablo68 ( @jpablo68@infosec.pub ) English8•1 month ago
it bothers me that the chad’s text also uses comic sans…
- FundMECFSResearch ( @FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English4•1 month ago
For some fucking reason I used to take my analysis and Lin Alg notes in latex
- Midnitte ( @Midnitte@beehaw.org ) English11•1 month ago
I mean, having readable lin alg equations is rather useful.
- fossphi ( @fossphi@lemm.ee ) English4•1 month ago
Org mode for the win
- driving_crooner ( @driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br ) English4•1 month ago
For actuarial sciences is LaTeX or dead, because the specific notation we need only exists on LaTeX.
- AllNewTypeFace ( @AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ) English3•1 month ago
Computer Modern makes you look like a cryptobro pretending to be a scientist, though these days there are Word templates for giving your whitepaper that sciencey look without having to know all that nerd shit.
- Shareni ( @Shareni@programming.dev ) English2•1 month ago
I mean, org-mode was invented because LaTeX is too hard
- Scrath ( @Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English1•1 month ago
The only thing I hate is how sometimes a document compiles perfectly fine on one machine only to utterly fail on another. On the two machines were I had this happen I have Texlive installed so that I wouldn’t have to look up missing packages. Maybe this is a version mismatch error? I have no clue.
Also I had an old document I wanted to compile which used a ‘\begin{justifying}’ tag. I can’t get that tag to work anymore and had to replace it with just ‘\justifying’