06 Dec 2017
Why I (don't) hate LaTeX
(via ariis' stream)
I understand and I can sympathize with the nuisances the author mentions (the error messages!), but I do not hate LaTeX.
I use LaTeX for practically everything I need to print. Actually, for most of the things I use org-mode, using its exporter later to obtain a LaTeX or a PDF document – via LaTeX, again – when needed. When I don't need anything special, it's good enough. And it's all plain text, which is also good.
When I need something special, I can thrown in some packages doing the work for me. If I need something very special, well, it might lead me to swearing and tears and whatnot, but I know at the end I'll have something largely more manageable than any other system I know could give me.