• addie@feddit.uk
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    1 day ago

    Man alive, all that time I wasted learning LaTeX in that case. Supports tables properly, “floats” pictures and figures about without messing up the flow of text, exceptional support for equations, beautiful printed output…

    Suffers from a completely insane macro-writing language, and its markup is more intrusive in the text than markdown’s is. Also, if you have very specific formatting output requirements (for a receiving publication, for instance) then it can be somewhat painful to whip into shape. Plain-text gang forever, though.

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      18 hours ago

      haaave you heard about our lord and saviour Typst?

      same layout algorithm as LaTeX, but:

      • simpler markup
      • sane, consistent scripting language
      • fast compilation, including incremental updates so you can have a process watching your file and instantly create a new PDF on changes
      • easy collaborative editing through their web app
      • actually understandable error messages