|
| marcodiego wrote:
| I don't like latex. But alternatives look still worse for me. It
| is like a Stockholm syndrome.
| brian_herman wrote:
| I used this in school it is great!
| Hydraulix989 wrote:
| Why do the lessons only have code but not the rendered results?
| It's difficult to follow along if you don't know what the code is
| actually doing...
| tffgg wrote:
| I know it's unrealistic, but I wish someone would reinvent Latex.
| I don't really want anyone to learn it. It's sad it seems kind of
| the best tools for advanced use out there...
| nsajko wrote:
| The reinvention is called ConTeXt.
| flenserboy wrote:
| It's not difficult to learn at a base level. The real
| difficulty in learning LaTeX is becoming comfortable with
| handing the keys over when it comes to presentation -- WYSIWYG
| grabs people easily, and, once taken in, it is tremendously
| difficult to break them of their urge to fiddle with things. In
| many ways it is _good_ that it takes some doing to do more than
| the basics -- nice output for basic documents is almost a
| guarantee.
| nsajko wrote:
| Fun fact: about 20 years ago, LaTeX developers were lamenting the
| stagnation of LaTeX and LaTeX being surpassed on a technical
| level by its new competitor (in the TeX world), ConTeXt.
|
| Since then LaTeX has basically kept on stagnating in the name of
| backwards compatibility, while ConTeXt keeps on progressing; it
| already broke backwards compatibility several times (it's latest
| implementation is LMTX).
|
| But the inertia is so powerful that nobody except TeX geeks even
| knows what ConTeXt is. How does that happen?
|
| Sidenote: it's not just about ConTeXt, even LuaTeX, the latest
| (but not new anymore) implementation of TeX in general, is being
| ignored by scientific publishers.
|
| Meanwhile, ConTeXt is mostly used for demanding typesetting of
| books.
|
| And, BTW, using ConTeXt (or LuaTeX) doesn't even necessarily mean
| writing TeX anymore, it's possible to drive the engines through
| the Lua C API, or with XML, etc.
|
| ConTeXt links:
|
| https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Main_Page
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ConTeXt
|
| Mailing list: https://mailman.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
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