May I introduce you to typst ?

I’m sorry but you can totally control the margin size in LaTeX if you learn the right incantation

backslash UsEpAcKaGe letterpaper H-maaaaaaargin point seventy-niiiiiine inch brackets GEOOOOOMETRY

then you spread the entrails slightly and stab towards the sky. Really don’t see what the big fuss is all about.

What about ODT?

A long while ago, I used to use kdissert (now semantik) to make all my white papers, from mind map to document, generating latex out, fine tune, and just gorgeous.

Then I was forced to put them in word and hand it off to our graphics design people to put it into InDesign.

I think I’m going to try semantik for more than mind maps again.

Question sheets in Word - “Hello, and welcome to indent roulette”

Question sheets in LaTeX - “\item{} goes brr”

Org mode for the win

The only thing I hate is how sometimes a document compiles perfectly fine on one machine only to utterly fail on another. On the two machines were I had this happen I have Texlive installed so that I wouldn’t have to look up missing packages. Maybe this is a version mismatch error? I have no clue.

Also I had an old document I wanted to compile which used a ‘\begin{justifying}’ tag. I can’t get that tag to work anymore and had to replace it with just ‘\justifying’

Yes, but that raises another argument, “lay tex” or “lay tek”… The endless fighting never stops!

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