Great info! You should post this in the LaTeX community (latex@lemmy.ca seems to be one of the more popular ones).
Thanks, I will
I’ve been really interested in Latex since I heard about it. Does anyone have examples of top tier use of it? I know it’s more for proper layout of equations and such, but are there examples of being used in aesthetically pleasing ways?
I ran across that link before and there is fantastic examples in there!
Take a look at some of the templates available at Overleaf: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates
I don't have a link to it right now, but I use LaTeX to format my CV. It makes it much easier to add new sections and keep everything consistent.
I had a professor that made us use LaTex for our lab reports. Kept telling us it is an industry standard. I knew it was bullshit.
Every time we had a guest speaker come and talk about their work (was in an EE program), I would ask if they used LaTex. ( I was bitter because I felt I was being forced to waste time learning something that I didn't need to).
Every single one said no. Some didn't even know what it was.
The professor always gave me a dirty look, but he never gave me shit about it, but he also never changed his policy.
I've been working as an EE for 3 years now and I have still never seen LaTex in the wild.
Not for industry, but certainly for academic research. Curious to hear that was their position regardless.
It's the standard for industry research, as well. And for education (e.g., textbooks) and a lot of technical documentation.
Basically any job where you may have to type math (and make it look okay), (La)TeX will be the standard. Anything other than TeX, LaTeX or Typst for typesetting math would be pure masochism.
But if your job is to actually do things applied, and your math can be limited to scribbling on a whiteboard or a notebook and never showing anyone other than maybe a coworker or two, you will probably never have a need for LaTeX.
Stop messing with my world view!
…Why is a book about LaTeX written in Google Docs?
I'm lost too but that's because I'm here from all and have absolutely no idea what the hell's going on. I see neither latex or books :(
I remember discovering my latex kink.
Is there a link? Am I missing something?
Just added, sorry, my first post (but I pasted it...)
I tried to write some LaTex in Windows, so I downloaded an example doc that I was planning on making changes to, but then it complained about missing a font and apparently adding a font to latex isn't actually possible so that's been my Latex experience :/
