Laughs in LaTeX.
Laughs in more advanced Word/Libre skills.
Laughs in Typst.
Is latex better than Libre?
Depends on who you ask… LaTeX is a typesetting system that uses plain text commands to format and structure documents. Has a bit of a learning curve. It also (usually) does exactly what you ask it for.
So, maybe not worth teaching the in laws, but could be adapted for personal use with some practice?
It’s a go to solution for scientific papers.
Depends on what you wanna do. Also it’s a matter of preferences. For anything more complex than a simple letter or a table I’m using Latex. But although I love Latex, I must acknowledge that for some it’s not the right tool.
It has advantages and disadvantages as everything in life ;) Ask your favorite search engine or LLM what those are, I don’t feel qualified to elaborate on that.
Me trying to move tables and figures around in Word:
We need to bring back '90s hats.
Me in LaTeX: [H!], please be where I want you to be!
Pro-tip, at least when I last used Word, hold alt when dragging and dropping images. It somehow fixed the brokenness of the default way of doing it. I think this still works, I just haven’t had to type anything up in like 5-10 years, of the stuff I have, I don’t think I’ve ever had to include an image.
This is the Moment for the Latex or Typst people!
Wouldn’t happen if you use formatting tools correctly.
I’m actually pretty good at formating. Just found this funny
Rarely happened to me either.
If it happened it was usually due to me creating a design problem beforehand.
