Discuss

indesign is not for word processing

Nothing to discuss, that picture is perfect.

>>61390764
(that's the meme)

>>61390632
why did you reverse the order?

plain text

File: 5d6.jpg (179KB, 1700x1700px) Image search: [Google]

179KB, 1700x1700px

>>61390632
>not writing articles on emacs

Google docs is normie tier trash
All the people who actually do work kept word 2010

>>61390632
Which one is it?
>Latex
>Lateshhhhh

>>61390855
>not writing .tex in vim

>>61390940
Latex is what there was a hole in when you were made in a trailer.
LateCH is the software.

>>61391008
Then I suppose you'd also agree that it's
>Jif
And not
>Gif
?

>>61390940
Latex.
If you mean how to pronounce it, it is two syllables, la and tex.
If you are one of those retard americans that can't figure out how to pronounce words, then it is closer to "la tech" than the gummi material.

File: DEUGR1bXgAADDHU.jpg (124KB, 724x1024px) Image search: [Google]

124KB, 724x1024px

>>61390999
>not writing prose in a simpler format in the editor of your choice and using pandoc/a2x/multimarkdown to generate LaTeX/XeTeX output when you're ready for the typesetting phase
I remain ever grateful that I work in a tech savvy industry where plain text and email are valid methods of sharing information so I don't need to mess with MS Orifice formats often.

>>61391025
No you fuck face, it is not "Jif" or "Gif". it is ".gif"
Nobody says jiant, jiraffe or jymnastics, but they all have a soft g.
Spell it correctly you dumb fuck.

Swap the first two ones.

>>61391122
But people DO say Lateshhhhhhhhhhhhh?

>>61391143
They say /ˈlɑːtɛk/
Everyone who is not a retard can look up how you say something.

>>61391200
>It's spelled identically yet it's not pronounced the same way.
>It's okay in this selective scenario but not in this other.

>>61391143
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HuwiBPLV3A

>>61390632
>Google botnet is smarter than using Word 2010

Kill yourself

>>61391200
that changed when iTeX was announced
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKaI78K_rgA

>>61391285
How do you pronounce "read"?

>>61391285
It's not the English letter eks but the Greek letter chi. As for tee and ee, It's just a coincidence that tau and epsilon happen to have the same phonetic value.

>>61390632
What about scrivener

Personally I don't like it, but among heavy writers its popular.

>>61391393
that was fun, thank you

What does /g/ have against LaTeX?

t. curious/sci/entist

Why is LibreOffice missing from that list? Sometimes WYSIWYG is nice.

>>61391602
Apparently, plopping down a \section and writing the contents is much more autistic than fucking around with the nightmare that is MS Word sections. I don't even know anyone that actually properly used MS Word sections.

>>61391676
I knew someone who changed all the fonts and stuff so his word produced documents that looked like latex.
We all agreed that was more autistic.

>>61391676
Literally only set up the formats once (that's akin to figuring out your usepackages in LaTeX) and then just hit [Ctrl]+{1,2,3} for progressively smaller headings that get automatically added to the index. I feel those that spout the "Word is bad because its formatting is too difficult" meme just don't know about formatting and do everything by hand.
MS Word is shit, but for completely different reasons.

Personally, I use LaTeX nowadays simply because they're plaintext, so I can copypaste them and they'll look exactly the same, and because that lets me compare them line-by-line when someone made modifications.

>>61390880
you spelled 2003 wrong

>>61391602
It's needlessly verbose for most stuff. I have my resume in XeLaTeX but I just use plain text or Markdown for day to day.

File: 1495524357472.gif (1MB, 303x307px) Image search: [Google]

1MB, 303x307px

>>61390632
You forgot LibreOffice at the very bottom.

>>61391351
>He doesn't work somewhere where document sharing is required because he's an autistic NEET
>He doesn't realize that Sharepoint is a 90s era abortion

>>61391573
I like Scrivener. But the brain meme relates to typesetting not word processing, further reaffirming the filename

>>61392260
>another autistic /g/entooman with Temporal lobe damage who cannot appreciate elegant typesetting

>>61392281
>He works in an office that doesn't pay for Microsoft Office
>He works somewhere document sharing is facilitated by free cloud services

What the actual fuck?

To be honest, MS Word became 10 times better when I realized it allowed entering mathematical notation via a latex-esque syntax and had a lot of latex writers involved in its updates over the years. I think they recently came up with a neat open-source "common sense" mathematics notation that creates very nicely typeset math without being a pain in the ass to type for mathematicians, I'll see if I can dig up the paper for it.

>>61392396
>Using something that sucks because they paid for it
>Never having heard of jewgle office or jewgle education
>What is almost every school district
>What is almost every institution of higher education
That's right. I forgot this is /g/ where everyone lives in a designated shitting cubicle and doesn't have a graduate degree.

>>61392423
>He thinks school is like the real world

Real businesses pay for software Anon. You'll see when you get a job

>>61390632
Are you writing documents with complex mathematical formulas on a regular basis? LaTeX.

Are you writing literally anything else? Microsoft Word.

>>61392436
>He thinks no one works at universities
Sigh. This really is a brainlet board.
>>61392443
Writing publishable articles for literally almost every journal in almost any conceivable format used by researchers is easier in LaTeX.

File: brainlets.jpg (135KB, 443x782px) Image search: [Google]

135KB, 443x782px

>>61390632

>>61392459
breddy gud xDDDDD

>>61390940
Lah - Tech

File: lyx.gif (17KB, 698x538px) Image search: [Google]

17KB, 698x538px

LyX kills normie tier word processors, is braindead easy. Now Scribus is what you call a proper document processor.

>>61392412
Oh, here it is:
"Nearly Plain-Text Encoding of Mathematics"
http://unicode.org/notes/tn28/
It's a bit long at 50 pages, but it's a good read.

>>61392495
>document processor
*desktop publisher

File: 1493346638519.jpg (203KB, 838x855px) Image search: [Google]

203KB, 838x855px

>>61392281
You realize that Microsoft Word now has document sharing and group editing through OneDrive, so it's essentially Google Docs but better now, right?

If you're gonna use a botnet, at least make sure it is practically superior. Google Docs = Cockcheese in software form.

>>61392555
OneDrive is shit.

>>61392512
Are we gonna need a USB stick meme for this?

>>61392457
>Some parking enforcement loser thinks his university job is prestigious

>>61392603
You're better than that, anon.

>>61392560
They're all the same, service wise. The question is which has a better editing suite? And the answer is OneDrive.

Ideally, I wouldn't want to use the cloud anyway, but sometimes my classes require it for the cooperation aspect and even they have figured out that the Google Docs suite is watered down shit.

>>61392495
why do people push the lyx meme so much?
It seems like a shitty latex.

>>61392614
OneDrive has some rather serious sync issues.

>LaTex
>Not writing on word with the CMU fonts

>>61392619
Because is easy for normies.

>>61392620
Not in my experience, but I will admit that their handling of emails and accounts has treated me very poorly in the past. My generic work email was reused for another employee after I resigned, (you can tell how shitty this business was) and yet I could not cancel the OneDrive assigned to that email, so I had some random employee with access to everything I had in it. And they changed the fucking password

>>61392637
So it is translated into Mongolian or something?
Latex is already easy for normies assuming they speak english.

>>61392665
You are overestimating /g/ m8

>>61392694
But you can already click on menus with latex, I don't see the point

File: 1371041650663.jpg (24KB, 314x295px) Image search: [Google]

24KB, 314x295px

>>61390632
Word just werks

Docs is great when writing in a document with other people

InDesign is only beneficial over the above options if you're writing whole pages for a magazine or brochure or whatever

LaTex is probably really neat but I've never taken the effort to learn how to use it

>he doesn't etch his documents as 0s and 1s into stone in the remoteness of the desert

Absolute pleb scum. Kys.

File: elder_gods.png (934KB, 2024x1483px) Image search: [Google]

934KB, 2024x1483px

>>61390632
ummm think again sweaty xxx

i wrote my bachelors thesis in latex; can really recommend it, if you have to display a lot of tables and figures; in word i had some problems with the layout breaking some times

who actually jas a use for Latex and shit besides actual professional scientists and mathematicians and publishers? because I find it hard to believe there's a lot of any of those people on here

>>61392846
Professional writers such as myself use it.

>>61392854
1. why do they use it?
2. >professional writers such as myself

>not using Visual Studio Code to write a document
What a bunch of peasants.

Apparently none of these retards ever use LaTeX and talk shit without knowing.

>>61392878
https://www.ctan.org/pkg/book

>>61390632
google docs in 3 tiers below msword.

File: memegod.jpg (72KB, 688x486px) Image search: [Google]

72KB, 688x486px

>>61392817

>>61392927
why would the wriyer have to "prepare a book for publication" though? that's a publisher's job

Lay tex (Latex)
Giff (.gif)
Ping (.png)
Blip (.blp)
Webbum (.webm)
Hotmail (.html)
Safe for work (.sfw)
Jaypeg (.jpg)
Pay duh fee (.pdf)
Targa (.targa)
Movie pro four (.mp4)
Wave (.wav)
Music pro three (.mp3)
Oggy (.ogg)
Zeemul (.xml)
Text (.txt)

These are the industry standard and if you can't adapt then you don't belong in the real world. Get used to it or get used to your freelance business being in the shitter.

>>61393805
kek

>>61393805
I think you mean "Safe work for"