• beta_tester@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    As a latex user, reading “… and I absolutely need the formatting to be correct …” and using word is a joke

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      1 year ago

      Latex is what made switching to linux possible for me during college. I had multiple lab classes that required their own very specific formatting. One of them required latex, and I was the only person who ended up learning latex in my lab group. Between that semester and the next one, I installed linux and used latex exclusively for all my reports, and I can certainly say that my papers actually looked good. I spent no time on formatting after the first lab report when I made my template.