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Please dont take this seriously guys its just a dumb meme I haven't written a single line of code in half of these languages

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[–] [email protected] 115 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (19 children)

Latex: Problem --> \def\please@#1#2#3#4{\e@kill#2#3{\me#1}#4@now} -->

[–] [email protected] 63 points 8 months ago (15 children)

Accurate. LaTeX is great, it makes you feel like you have superpowers compared to "office suite"-style software. But every once in a while you just run into some bullshit that feels like it's stuck in 1985 and it completely breaks your flow. I remember wanting to make a longtable where text in the "date" column would be rotated by 90 degrees to leave more horizontal room for the other columns. It took me two rotateboxes, a phantom, a vspace, a hspace and 40 minutes of my life to get the alignment right. Would probably have taken a duckduckgo search and three clicks in Libreoffice.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (3 children)

btw what do you think about typst?
i only used it for simple stuff so far but it seems pretty fun and easy to use

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

My two cents, after years of Markdown (and md to PDF solutions) and LaTeX and a full two years of trying to commit to bashing my head against Word for work purposes, I'm really enjoying Typst. It didn't take long to convert my themes, having docs I can import which are basically just variables to share across documents in a folder has been really helpful. Haven't gone too deep into it but I'm excited to give it a deeper test run over the next little bit.

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