I've used microsoft word and librecuck for years now. Is LaTeX faster? Can you give me a reason to switch?
Is LaTeX worth it Anons?
Easton Rogers
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Nolan Anderson
It's worth it IMO. Not only is much easier to keep your style consistent, but I think it saves time. While you do need to put in 'commands' of sorts for some things, it means you can just tell it what you want to see instead of dicking around in menus. And it automates organization for things like sections, figures, tables, citations. I use it for academic reports and it saves me a headache with all that. But just for general use, I think its verbosity is extremely useful.
Jace Adams
>LaTeX takes longer for simple documents
You can just start it from a template. You type in plain text and the template formats everything for you.
Cooper Wright
You can use markdown for very simple documents. Pandoc can render that to pdf using LaTeX
Chase Nguyen
Microsoft Word is not free software.
Wyatt Clark
I know user, I used it when I was a normie windows user a long time ago
Noah Hughes
I didn't pay for it, its software. Microsoft word is free software.
Ayden Lewis
It's worth it if you
1. Don't want word to completely fuck up your formatting every time you change a tiny thing on a 50+ page document
2. Write a lot of math
Oliver Long
Use org-mode -> latex-export.
You ARE using emacs, right? Right?
Lincoln Long
Yes, it produces longer-form documents that actually look professional (unlike MS Word)
Personally, I prefer Overleaf for the collaboration tools and the fact that it doesn't install 50GB worth of shit all over your filesystem like every TeX installer