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BrandonS113 | 2 years ago
Latex is horrible but makes beautiful documents and the relevant world either uses latex or Mircosoft Office. Why use anything else? Latex lives by the community of people who use latex for their work and to collaborate. All know 20 year old latex documents will be compilable in 20 years. No competitor outside of Microsoft can survive that.
dccsillag|2 years ago
Except it's not. For example, in 2021, the NeurIPS template compiled differently in different versions of TeXLive (https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/598567/different-pdf...). To my knowledge this change of behaviour has not been addressed in TexLive.
> Latex is horrible but makes beautiful documents and the relevant world either uses latex or Mircosoft Office. Why use anything else?
And why invent anything new when there are already existing alternatives? Why invent C++, Rust, Zig when there already was C? Why invent Clang when there already was GCC? Why invent Git when there was already CVS? And so on. (Maybe not the best examples, but that's what I could think of on the spot.)
The point is that there are aspects in which the current solutions (in this case, LaTeX) fails, and new systems can address them, since they tend to have much more liberty in the design space than the older system.
Gualdrapo|2 years ago
I as a graphic designer have been using ConTeXt for more than 10 years now, and I think it's amazing for producing more 'custom' documents and handling typography and stuff. LaTeX and Word fall too short in that purpose.
I guess Typst more of a tool oriented for programmers and computer science people as it seems targeted to give some programming power right into their documents. I may be wrong, but I don't see LaTeX that approachabe from that way (unless you have a decent knowledge of TeX and you are not prone to headaches caused by backslashes).
piz|2 years ago
Let's agree to disagree. So many people can't use LaTeX properly because it's too esoteric and dream of using something different than Office.