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Storing text in binary formats like word docs instead of plain text like latex makes git version control unusable.
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How dare they!?
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latex exists to make your text look more professional, not to make you more productive, duh.
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“¿Por qué no los dos?”
I write my text in a word processor (Like Libreoffice writer) and typeset the final document in LaTeX.
I never understood this false comparison between the two software that are essentially meant for very distinct tasks.
Just write everything in markdown and use pandoc to type set.
.md .tex .md
That is what Obsidian is for.
Word definitely has its niche.
However, I find for many of my tasks, LaTeX or Typst just make sense. I don’t need to worry about out of date figures. I can customize styling instantly. I can track my changes with Git. Grammar checking is rough tho. lsp-like grammar checking would revolutionize my world lol.
I can personally attest that I transitioned to LaTeX from Word, when Word wouldn’t handle equations correctly, or would crash when I had too many. It doesn’t matter if I can put out 50 word equations faster than LaTeX if I’m breaking my flow state to restart my editor.
They overlap in their ecosystem niches but in no way is one a complete replacement for the other. LaTeX has a larger niche than Word which makes it a really safe default.
“Nobody ever got fired for choosing React”
I’ve done a bit more searching and it seems ltex-lsp-plus is the best out there for lsp grammar checking. It’s 1000x better than nothing, though the false negative rate is a bit high for my taste :)
Maybe it takes more time because it allows more editing control over the finished product. The report of an enjoyable user experience for latex would back this up since users were able to produce what they wanted instead of being limited to using words jank as editing and just giving up or using a shitty template. Test against plain text entry I bet there is a positive correlation between limited features and total word count
I’ve been questioning the benefits every time someone insisted that I should use latex. Now I have scientific evidence that it won’t make my life better!
Use latex. It will make your life better.
Well, latex users reported enjoying the software, so I will give you that credit.
I’m imagining what it would be like to write a page long {align} in word and it’s terrifying.
Typst >>>>>.
But still, Word sucks ass.
This is an outrage! 🧐
sample size seems small but im no expert
Clearly flawed methodology.
The value of LaTeX isn’t productivity when making a single document.
The value of LaTeX is productivity when you need to reuse past work, or update it with the latest data and figures, or make a collection of similar documents.
I’ve wasted hours of my life, trying to insert an image in a word document without word compressing it, making it illegible, only to find out that it’s impossible. I can’t even imagine anything being worse at this point
I never get these comments… I never had these problems in Word and I’m using Office since Office 2003. However what I did repeatedly see are users who, although Office has many possible workflows chose the most complex one and were then too stubborn to change
Sure, i can’t rule out user error, especially since im not a word expert. But the “searching for an alternative workflow part” is the one that actually takes the most time.
In the end, the “solution” that worked was to cut up the diagram and put it on multiple pages. Sure, it’s not elegant and maybe word had some built in features for this, but i couldn’t find them.
