Great info! You should post this in the LaTeX community (latex@lemmy.ca seems to be one of the more popular ones).
Thanks, I will
I’ve been really interested in Latex since I heard about it. Does anyone have examples of top tier use of it? I know it’s more for proper layout of equations and such, but are there examples of being used in aesthetically pleasing ways?
I ran across that link before and there is fantastic examples in there!
I learned it to write a resignation letter 10 years ago. I haven’t touched it since.
The letter looked fantastic.
That sounds gloriously over the top.
Actually, if you pull up some basic formatting syntax, it’s not really slower than formatting in Word. It has presets for all the placement you need for a business letter, so you really just focus on what you want to say.
Take a look at some of the templates available at Overleaf: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates
I don’t have a link to it right now, but I use LaTeX to format my CV. It makes it much easier to add new sections and keep everything consistent.
…Why is a book about LaTeX written in Google Docs?
why it is writtent in Google Docs -_- ? I have made an online preview, but it is just special repo which is hosted book in .pdf
Oh, so you’re using Google Docs’ viewer to view a PDF hosted elsewhere? Interesting, I didn’t know that was possible. Why not just link to the PDF directly?
https://github.com/AnMnv/eBook/blob/main/eBook.pdf here is just the link on .pdf book but the names in TOC in not “clickable” that is why I choose online preview in this way)
If you link to the raw file, it’s going to open in the browser’s PDF viewer, where links are clickable.
in this case, downloading starts immediately, it is not ok (at least in my case, I want to have online preview)
Looks like your browser doesn’t have a PDF viewer built in. You should install an extension that adds it (PDF.js), it’s really useful.
That would be a combination of your settings, and headers coming from GitHub.
That would be a client side issue - your browser is using Google Docs to display the pdf. What’s in the repo is a pdf only, that works equally well in Foxit or whatever you like.
The link in the repo explicitly links to Google Docs: https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AnMnv/AnMnv.github.io/master/eBook.pdf
If I open the PDF directly (which GitHub’s interface makes unnecessarily difficult), it doesn’t open in Google Docs.
I had a professor that made us use LaTex for our lab reports. Kept telling us it is an industry standard. I knew it was bullshit.
Every time we had a guest speaker come and talk about their work (was in an EE program), I would ask if they used LaTex. ( I was bitter because I felt I was being forced to waste time learning something that I didn’t need to).
Every single one said no. Some didn’t even know what it was.
The professor always gave me a dirty look, but he never gave me shit about it, but he also never changed his policy.
I’ve been working as an EE for 3 years now and I have still never seen LaTex in the wild.
Not for industry, but certainly for academic research. Curious to hear that was their position regardless.
It’s the standard for industry research, as well. And for education (e.g., textbooks) and a lot of technical documentation.
Basically any job where you may have to type math (and make it look okay), (La)TeX will be the standard. Anything other than TeX, LaTeX or Typst for typesetting math would be pure masochism.
But if your job is to actually do things applied, and your math can be limited to scribbling on a whiteboard or a notebook and never showing anyone other than maybe a coworker or two, you will probably never have a need for LaTeX.
Stop messing with my world view!
Is there a link? Am I missing something?
Just added, sorry, my first post (but I pasted it…)
I’m lost too but that’s because I’m here from all and have absolutely no idea what the hell’s going on. I see neither latex or books :(
I tried to write some LaTex in Windows, so I downloaded an example doc that I was planning on making changes to, but then it complained about missing a font and apparently adding a font to latex isn’t actually possible so that’s been my Latex experience :/
