Latex

[Tealk]

Hi

I wanted to ask if any of you have ever worked with latex?
Current carpenter I my pen and paper rulebook with it.

 

[TwentySix]

I have worked with Latex masks. But It depends what kind of latex tasks you need to talk about

 

[Tealk]

Actually, it's just a general interest to see if that's used.

Currently I use this for my pen and paper rulebook, only tables are not really nice to implement.

 

[Malcolm]

What’s Latex used for?

 

[Tealk]

To structure texts, similar to Word only in one script language.
Therefore you can export it to all possible formats.

Here's an example:

 

[Tealk]

Here are some settings if you want to use LaTeX with git

What IDE do you use for development?

I'm still trying a whole wack of IDE's to see which one suits me best. Right now I'm kinda liking Visual Studio but don't mind using Sublime and Atom. What about you?

codeforum.org

 

[Deleted member 65]

What does it look like?
How do you use it?

 

[Tealk]

What does it look like?
How do you use it?

Can you ask your questions more explicitly? I don't know what you're referring to.

 

[Deleted member 205]

Can you ask your questions more explicitly? I don't know what you're referring to.

I think he may be asking as to what LaTex is, how do you use it and what would an end-result using it look like. That's my guess anyway.

 

[Tealk]

LaTeX is a text editing program. It can be used to write anything from notes to scientific papers.

Here's an example @William .

 

[Malcolm]

How's Latex treating you @Tealk ? I haven't looked into it yet. Have you created anything with it?

 

[Tealk]

How's Latex treating you @Tealk ? I haven't looked into it yet. Have you created anything with it?

You see the screenshot, I'm writing my Pen and Paper rulebook with it.

 

[Malcolm]

You see the screenshot, I'm writing my Pen and Paper rulebook with it.

Oh my apologies, I thought it was one of their examples! That looks really good!

 

[Tealk]

Oh my apologies, I thought it was one of their examples! That looks really good!

No, this is a direct comparison of LaTeX and the resulting PDF.

 

[Mathematical]

I've actually gotten into LaTex recently and I quite like it. While my documents are just the default, plain ones, I certainly enjoyed learning and working with it. I find it much better to use for essays and project-related documents instead of LibreOffice Writer. Yeah sure, I may have to go into a command-line, type out all of the markup-commands, compile it, but that doesn't bother me as the terminal is literally my house anyway. It may also be a bit slower to work with too, as again, you need to compile the document and all that, but either way, the end result is worth it.

Sometimes, it can be a bit of a nightmare to compile the document, but I usually just restart it if I can't seem to fix my issue. Then there's no issues after I restart work on the document for some reason.

I suggest if you haven't, that you learn LaTex, especially if you intend on working in a science-related field - Computer-Science included. LaTex can truly output some well, neatly formatted documents ripe for reading through.

 

[Tealk]

What program do you use for this? I have tested a few and find TeXstudio is the best.
You can have a look at it.

When you get used to it it goes just as fast as word and co

 

[Mathematical]

What program do you use for this? I have tested a few and find TeXstudio is the best.
You can have a look at it.

When you get used to it it goes just as fast as word and co

I use either GNU Nano or EMACS. I do recall using TexStudio at one point but I couldn't seem to get it working. Perhaps I wasn't getting something right when setting it up. Now that you've reminded me about it, I may actually give it another shot seeing as I've actually learned a bit of LaTex now.

I'm still doing my best to settle into LaTex at the moment, because of course as with everyone else on Earth, I'm more used to Word/LibreOffice Writer.

 

[Tealk]

it is of course not necessary to use such a program, but it also shows you errors, so you would not have to start from scratch but could only take care of them.

I find latex offers a much better surface than Word/LibreOffice Writer and co. Especially if you create similar documents often, they all look identical and that makes a very professional impression.

 

[Mathematical]

it is of course not necessary to use such a program, but it also shows you errors, so you would not have to start from scratch but could only take care of them

Now, I definitely need it. As I said, I do experience quite a lot of errors once I've done a lot of work on a document, only to then start from scratch because I cannot fix any of my issues. But as I said, the end result is always worth it, even after a lot of torture trying to resolve a very small issue that prevents the document from being compiled.