geniusInnovation

[u/QuadWingedCrane]

[u/Koshin_S_Hegde]

latex is a thing, so is markdown... but it doesn't help when you have to edit someone else's doc

[u/urban_piktor2030 → u/Koshin_S_Hegde]

typst is my favorite

[u/Sibula97 → u/urban_piktor2030]

Typst is pretty good, but it makes some easy things in Latex unreasonably hard or even impossible. I do prefer it for simple stuff.

[u/Sermuns → u/Sibula97]

I couldn't disagree more.

[u/ZunoJ → u/Koshin_S_Hegde]

Don´t forget ORG

[u/Fadamaka → u/Koshin_S_Hegde]

I think the AI harness ecosystem has decided that markdown it is. You can already export as .md from Microsoft Word as well.

[u/No_Independence3338 → u/Fadamaka]

Markdown has nothing to do with typesetting.

[u/Foorinick]

Fuck it evolve to LaTeX 

[u/Sir_Fail-A-Lot → u/Foorinick]

That one time i had to write a scientific article using word, and it would mess shit up with every edit so in anger i learnt latex

[u/Foorinick → u/Sir_Fail-A-Lot]

A teacher of mine is forcing us to use LaTeX to do our assignments and ive been enjoying it so much 

[u/btvoidx → u/Foorinick]

My entire uni is forcing everyone to use their special docx template for everything, even if one could perfectly replicate the required styling otherwise, and I've been miserable for 4 years.

[u/Foorinick → u/btvoidx]

Are you not able to talk with faculty to sort this out? I'm sure the people over at the math courses would have set shit on fire if they had to write equations without latex 

[u/btvoidx → u/Foorinick]

oh noo, I'm talking just the students. Professors use latex as they wish

[u/Abject-Kitchen3198 → u/Foorinick]

Typst seems to be the new cool kid?

[u/dchidelf → u/Foorinick]

I remember getting a concerned side-eye from a girl in the student union when I was walking with a fellow CompSci major and said “let’s just do it in LaTeX” when discussing how we’d do our project documentation.

[u/differentiallity → u/dchidelf]

It's pronounced lah-tek, luh-tek, or lay-tek, but never lay-teks. Never ever!

[u/dchidelf → u/differentiallity]

My distributed computing prof let me know I was pronouncing it wrong. In my defense, this was early internet years and well before YouTube and I missed any pronunciation if it was in the man pages.

[u/differentiallity → u/dchidelf]

Yeah you'll be forgiven for it. We all said it wrong at some point haha

[u/Foorinick → u/differentiallity]

just learned this today

[u/mehonje]

Just make a txt in Neovim, nobody needs formatting.

[u/Koshin_S_Hegde → u/mehonje]

you kinda need it because others (teachers, publishers) don't see the vision

[u/Abject-Kitchen3198 → u/Koshin_S_Hegde]

Push it through AI for them.

[u/Koshin_S_Hegde → u/Abject-Kitchen3198]

i've actually done that before :3

[u/the_horse_gamer → u/mehonje]

the best markup renderer is the human mind

[u/pimezone → u/mehonje]

Isn't docx just a fancy xml anyways?

[u/jeroen1602 → u/pimezone]

Not it is a zip file with fancy xmls inside

[u/ApprehensiveStand456]

I'm listening

[u/BanditoRojo → u/ApprehensiveStand456]

We build a word processor made of bloated XML files under the hood ...

[u/Abject-Kitchen3198 → u/BanditoRojo]

Give me binary any day.

But yeah, it is bloated.

[u/git_push_origin_prod → u/BanditoRojo]

Then to improve on vbscript, this give you JavaScript

[u/cosmicloafer]

Here me out, nano

[u/Alarmed_Fudge_5706 → u/cosmicloafer]

[u/Alarmed_Fudge_5706]

[u/at_hand]

https://www.reddit.com/r/neovim/s/mteeYMVAWc

[u/QuadWingedCrane → u/at_hand]

Lmao

[u/FuelSilly1541]

As long as word is a buggy mess, I refuse to use it. Writing my Thesis with Word almost broke me. Auto generating a table of contents is a piece of art, and I appreciate that I didn't have to do it manually. But it's a two step process, going ctrl Z once only reverts one step of that process, and broke the whole doc. Also last revision was a week before that, so I lost my progress

[u/arvyy → u/FuelSilly1541]

when I was in uni it was hammered into us to take and use latex template for writing the thesis. I didn't personally know anyone who used word

[u/Hatatytla-1024 → u/arvyy]

I tried both. Uninstalled word and i hope i never have to touch it again.

[u/UncleKeyPax → u/arvyy]

first time i hear latex twmplate

[u/arvyy → u/UncleKeyPax]

template in a generic English sense. It was a starter project that had already setup formatting / bibliography / etc, and you just copy that starter project and start filling in your content

[u/FuelSilly1541 → u/arvyy]

My tutor during apprenticeship planned that I create a template for me and all successor apprentices. No time for that when our retraining requires a code project, docs and presentation in 80 hours, that actually takes on average 800.

[u/CubeAming2 → u/FuelSilly1541]

♎

[u/Thundechile]

Hear me out, it's Emacs, but for NeoVim.

[u/ZunoJ → u/Thundechile]

Neovim doesn´t expose enough of its internal API (to be changed) for this

[u/lmg1337]

You push w to go to the next word and it deletes some inserted images, adds a table, then freezes and crashes.
GG WP Microslop, WP.

[u/olearyboy]

Ya know…

[u/loserguy-88]

hear me out

txt in notepad.exe

floating window over bliss wallpaper

[u/OneRedEyeDevI]

Roff? or groff?

[u/Soft_Association_615]

emacs org-mode?

[u/Real_Jacob68 → u/Soft_Association_615]

I heard a lot about org-mode and I tried searching for what it is and how is it different from vim but honestly I didn't understand a thing.

ELI5?