• @[email protected]
    9•5 months ago

    There are a lot of typos in this book. Are you looking for someone to proofread? Great work btw

  • Farid
    -1•5 months ago

    What’s an “open source” book? You don’t compile a book, aren’t they all “open source”? Do they list all the sources for their text or something?

      • Farid
        1•4 months ago

        I’m surprised this is still getting responses.
        Fair jab, but I was obviously the computing term, implying “…from source code”.

        • Bobby Turkalino
          1•4 months ago

          Yeah, even in that sense… the irony

          Ok I’ll stop being a prick 😂 if you haven’t used Latex before, you do write source code that gets compiled into PDF/PPT/whatever

          • Farid
            1•4 months ago

            I have some experience with Latex, but afaik, it’s mostly for writing mathematical formulas and stuff, no?

            • Bobby Turkalino
              2•4 months ago

              Sort of, if you’re writing a research paper or presentation or something like that with a lot of math in it, you can use Latex (for the whole thing, not just the formulas). It’s 10000X better than writing the same stuff in Word, especially if you know how to code

  • @[email protected]
    -4•5 months ago

    You guys should also check out Typst https://typst.app/. It is a lot easier than LaTeX even though not as powerful. It has meaningful error messages making the debugging a lot more user friendly.

    • @[email protected]
      8•5 months ago

      I had been using LaTeX at work and decided to give Typst a try:

      I installed the compiler and vscode extensions to run Typst natively.

      Setting up my orgs template in Typst was significantly easier then LaTeX and took about 20% less lines of code.

      I like the more modern, practical syntax for writing docs.

      It’s still a relatively young project though, so I found a few rough edges:

      • Paragraph indentation rules for my language weren’t available: managed to find a workaround though
      • Only allows use of relative paths for images, imports etc: apparently for security reasons, forces me to have template logo in almost every folder
      • Localized dates: Typst can’t do it
      • No \graphicspath like command: LaTeX will search for an image by filename in each specified folder, in order. Typst has no equivalent command (yet)

      Overall I was positively impressed, but went back to LaTeX mostly because of the last two points. Curious to see how Typst will be in a few years!

    • @[email protected]
      1•5 months ago

      Under every single LaTeX themed post there is someone suggesting typst. Why use something open, if you can use something proprietary? /s