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  • ranzispa@mander.xyztoProgrammer Humor@programming.dev•I still haven't figured out how to do this
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    20 hours ago

    I would not use latex for any document that should be a template for other people to fill in. Unless you’re a peer reviewed journal.

    I wouldn’t use latex for anything that requires precise positioning of images and elements. InDesign and similar are a much better option.

    I do like to use markdown for any document that does not fall into those categories. I like to use latex for any document I’m writing which I want someone else to style.

    Latex is very cool for styling, but in my experience most of the time you do not really need that amount of configurability and the added time to correctly make a styled document in latex is way more than what it would take you in word, even when you have to fight word to make it. That is unless you need equations, but then again: just write markdown with latex equations.

  • ranzispa@mander.xyztoProgrammer Humor@programming.dev•I still haven't figured out how to do this
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    20 hours ago

    When I have to work on docx I generally can do it with LibreOffice and I’m quite happy with that. Sometimes I can not, I had for example this pesky thing which wouldn’t let me edit parts of the document as it was locked, especially on tables. No amount of conversations across file formats fixes that for some reason.

    That is when I have to open up the office365 webpage. What a fucking piece of garbage. Most things you mention do not even exist in there. You can write a document and add comments, managing styles is already a bit too much for the yearly fee they charge you.

    I hope they make it possible again to install the office suite on Linux.

    And in no way I’m saying I like LibreOffice better than word, they’re both quite terrible; but at least one of them runs on my system.