https://twitter.com/BungaHead/status/1324899330893996036

    • blobjim [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      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.

        • blobjim [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          I'm guessing because it looks like this. I've never actually used it though.

          • kilternkafuffle [any]
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            4 years ago

            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}

        • vanityfairz [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          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!