alt Hacker Newsits for people who want latex but are mad that latex became c++
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nailer • last Tuesday at 12:47 PM
LaTeX also has some bizarre defaults like bitmap fonts in a tool designed to allow people to create high quality typeset documents.
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slashdave • last Tuesday at 4:18 PM
Became? When? I have latex documents written a couple decades ago that still render fine.
What happens in 10 years to all the Quarkdown documents once this fad fades away?
behnamoh • last Tuesday at 2:47 PM
when this tool has "FakeBold"[0] like Latex has, I'll make the switch.
[0]: https://x.com/OrganicGPT/status/1920202649481236745/photo/1
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If one just chooses a reasonable documentclass and if need be a few packages suited to the requirements of one's document, then it all "just works" with (mostly) sensible defaults and minimal configuration.
Memoir hugely simplified my own work in LaTeX back when I was doing book composition.
Or, just use LyX....