this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2023
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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The safe-word is overfull \hbox (badness 10000)

[–] spacesweedkid27 1 points 1 year ago

How do you fix this btw?

[–] George 16 points 1 year ago

Average LaTeX \emph{enjoyer}

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At work I wanted to do a pdf with a form on it in LaTeX. I thought i need a input mask. So I put "Latex mask" into google. I realized my mistake the moment i pressed enter but it was too late. Was the joke of my work group for at least a month.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Admit it, you were in private browsing while you wrote that, hoping no one would see you, lol.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No amount of pushing, suggestions, features lists, demonstrations, whatever has actually encouraged me any toward using LaTeX.
... Until now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Glad I could help, lol 😂.

[–] Otakeb 8 points 1 year ago

Lmao my femdom, math undergrad fiance in a nutshell.

[–] lipidi9522 7 points 1 year ago

Once you go latex, you can't go back..

[–] joneskind 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

She's probably using Bootcamp for even more pain

[–] spacesweedkid27 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

🤓 well atschually it's "LaTeX" 🤓

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

inbw GNU LaTeX.

[–] AffineConnection 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Actually, it’s

^L^~A~^T^~E~^X^

[–] Stilicho 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Is this popular? Never heard of this before.

[–] Thwompthwomp 14 points 1 year ago

You "compile" papers into a camera-ready final form. It handles like page references, figure numbering, citations, etc. There's also a rich package system for extending features. Most people use it for its math typesetting features, which is now a fairly common way to write math expressions (mathjax, word's equation editor can understand latex, markdown). More fun, you can write your own macros and have some pretty rich commands and features.

Latex is very common in math and physics departments, and somewhat common in CS and ECE departments. It's still mostly for academic writing (papers and books), although because its plain-text and scriptable, its pretty nice for other types of documentation where you can bring in tons of things via a makefile.

[–] DonJefe 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

LateX is very popular to write academic and scientific papers. It has a great support for mathematical formulas and every formatting option conceivable. I love it because it allows you to write papers using only your keyboard (no need for clicking 20 times to find the option in a menu). It's written as code, and then compiled into whatever format you'd like to use (pdf, etc)

[–] Stilicho 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Hmmm interesting, might check it out later

[–] QuazarOmega 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

~~Gotta love bots riddling this platformed too lol~~

[–] MBM 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why do you think it's a bot? Looks to me like they just meant to respond to Dr_Nope

[–] QuazarOmega 2 points 1 year ago

Oh wait, you might be right, after looking into their profile it seems they just have a very weird setup or something, my bad

[–] Dr_Nope 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In my academic work in France iymt was quite popular (at least in computer science & Mathematics field). But it was like 7 years ago, not sure about the current state of affairs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Still use it at least in CS for reports and specifications of a project

[–] GandalfTheWhite 3 points 1 year ago

At my university most technical studies use it. It is just so much easier to do equations and references. And when you use a nice template you never have to think about layout anymore.

[–] s6original 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can't use it. I'm allergic.

[–] spacesweedkid27 2 points 1 year ago

Same. But it really sucks, because it's such a nice material.

And I could imagine myself in a body suit...

[–] coygsu 3 points 1 year ago

Makes me wanna \addtolength{\topmargin}{4.5in}

[–] garconip -2 points 1 year ago

Agree. For my taste, she looks average.