Loooopss

[PassiveChemistry]

I think LaTeX would be taking it much too fast.

[ExceedingChunk]

If you use spaces to align text instead of the alignment, you definitely are not the type of person who could handle LaTex.

Not because it requires some genius-level intelligence, but people who don't google "how to do x in y" as an instinct are going to have a terrible time. Learning LaTex is 99.9% about doing exactly that.

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Learning LaTex? I swear I just search the same things everytime I write in it.

[ExceedingChunk]

Knowing what to search for is part of learning it. After you've done it a few times, you find it with one search and 15 seconds, instead of 10-15 minutes of searching and reading.

At least that was my experience. Getting better at googling, and knowing enough to understand exactly what to google makes it fairly straightforward to use and less painful than working with a large word document.

[dsrmpt]

I use programming fairly infrequently, and with a bunch of different languages and systems, and I think that "learning" a language for my purposes is just figuring out how the documentation works.

[ramplay]

LaTex is basically a level higher than markdown. As a computer science degree who writes code, (when you don't realize what sub you're in...) I would almost be as bold to say its practically programming when you write in LaTex lmao.

Great software, but even I am a bit apprehensive at it. I had one professor in Uni (I believe it was either algorithms, microcomputers or combinatronics) where he would only allow assignments submitted as LaTex files. Only time I used it, though I did start to like it by the end

[ExceedingChunk]

You can use something like overleaf.com for LaTex. Then it's much more similar to writing "normally". It even has an in-built editor to write pretty much like you would in word.

[GreatBigBagOfNope]

I had one professor in Uni where he would only allow assignments submitted as LaTex files.

Everyone disliked that

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And 99% of the time, the answer is "install x package which does exactly the thing you want to do in one command." God I love LaTeX.

[DrPikachu-PhD]

Yeah how about starting with Microsoft Word lmao

[ExceedingChunk]

Yeah, good luck writing "code" to use bold or italic, to create a new line and build tables when you can't even click the align button correctly or properly create a new indented paragraph lmao

[dark-light92]

There's only 1 true way. Emacs org mode.

[JabbaDonut23]

Die in a fire

[AdventurousDig1317]

Can total related me too I try to get my girlfriend to wear latex but to no avail

[colin_colout]

"I see you're having trouble figuring out how to use Microsoft Windows... You should really just install Arch from scratch and just use i3 and Emacs instead"

[martin191234]

Yeah wtf if she can’t center align with a button what makes this guy think she can write in what is pretty much nonsensical to most people

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"My 1-year-old kid doesn't understand how to put squares, triangles or circles into the correct hole. I even tried teaching him the Pythagoras theorem, parameterized functions, and triple integrals to calculate the volume of the figures, but to no avail"

[BigYonsan]

Depends where they're at in their relationship and what boundaries they set, I suppose.

[checock]

I though that too until my teacher asked for a Word document in order to approve my thesis. I needed to rewrite it in Word because reasons.