Context: LaTeX is a typesetting system. When compiling a document, a lot of really in-depth debugging information is printed, which can be borderline incomprehensible to anyone but LaTeX experts. It can also be a visual hindrance when looking for important information like errors.

  • bleistift2@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    4 months ago

    LaTeX is soo great! You don’t have to worry about formatting ever again.

    Puts image I’m talking about 8 pages away from the section that talks about the image

    Writes not only over the margin, but over the goddamn page boundary because adding a page was not fashionable that day

    Moves a table left by 1 cm on every other compilation, moves it back in the other compilations (happened to a colleague)

    So instead of worrying about formatting you worry about learning the incantations that force LaTeX at gunpoint not to fuck up the formatting.