When you write LaTeX, do you code? Typeset? Program? Type random stuff so that in the end the PDF looks good enough to publish it?

I really feel like it's coding but it also is typesetting. Hmm, the questions of life!

When you write LaTeX, you're doing art.

@pajaja That is absolutely true.

I use MS Word for my PDFs because their content usually far outweighs their design. So I that's where I spend my time, thinking about what I write instead of fiddling with the design.

I know, unpopular opinion

@Froot Not so unpopular. I was doing documents with heavy amounts of math and formulas in them. I tried to use Word or LibreOffice. Then discovered LaTeX. Oh wow it has opened my eyes.

These are the two projects: one for Physics (https://github.com/gjkf/...) and one for Mathematics (https://github.com/gjkf/...). They are in Italian but I think it can be helpful for some.

@gjkf Ah yes, if you need some formulas and stuff then I can understand the effort put into learning a new thing

@Froot Plus it also is almost mandatory for thesis and such. Learning never hurts! 👍

@gjkf Yea. Perhaps I should pick up latex. If only my bucket list of new stuff to learn wasn't already overflowing 🤣

@Froot Lol. Side projects, side projects everywhere!

@gjkf Yeah 😁
I have an RPi server that needs it's webpage built, a half done library on github that needs to be finished and an interesting js exploit I want to test, among other things like finishing the financial report for my company 😁

Think I'm just gonna go watch some Netflix 😁

@Froot Netflix, the solution to anything. Well, devRant is second then!

@Froot If you don't want to worry about design and want to concentrate on the content LaTeX is exactly what you need. You basically get a automated typesetting that's built on good typography so you don't need to worry about it. And if you don't want some custom stuff I would say that it could be even easier write than in Word.

@Froot Actually that's why I learned LaTeX: I didn't want to be bothered by Word's formatting issues and focus on the content.

I was sick of fixing a 90-page document every single time I opened it.

@deadlyRants Plus LaTeX seems much faster at dealing with lage documents.

@pajaja @deadlyRants @gjkf Thanks. Will defenately look into latex then