Speaking as someone who had to learn LaTeX for a work project, I upvoted this very hard. Fuck LaTeX. Knowing your way around a commercial kitchen griddle is a million times more useful.
Its a text format for creating nice looking documents (like PDFs) and formatting math equations and so on. It's a more exact way of creating documents as opposed to a What You See is What You Get editor like Microsoft Word.
Very steep learning curve to even getting to a comfortable proficiency, and it's compiled so when things fail it can be unclear as to why it's the case (especially the less experience you have with it). That and one missing \left and \right can break your entire document. It's cool though!
Speaking as someone who had to learn LaTeX for a work project, I upvoted this very hard. Fuck LaTeX. Knowing your way around a commercial kitchen griddle is a million times more useful.
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That’s hot.
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Its a text format for creating nice looking documents (like PDFs) and formatting math equations and so on. It's a more exact way of creating documents as opposed to a What You See is What You Get editor like Microsoft Word.
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I'm guessing because it looks like this. I've never actually used it though.
Yep, it's like having to write in HTML to produce a frigging Word document.
<greeting>hi</greeting>
{punctuation}comma{/punctuation}
[body]does doing pointless tasks makes you want to[/body]
(capitalize)bash(/capitalize)
[body]your head against the wall[/body]
{punctuation}question_mark{/punctuation}
Because it’s a lot of overhead for publishing papers.
Very steep learning curve to even getting to a comfortable proficiency, and it's compiled so when things fail it can be unclear as to why it's the case (especially the less experience you have with it). That and one missing \left and \right can break your entire document. It's cool though!