Pwning coworkers thanks to LaTeX

Re:Pwning coworkers thanks to LaTeX by lottin on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @05:17AM (#13062115)

I'm a relatively big fan of TeX but in my whole life only once have I met a co-worker who also used it. Yes, in theory is great for collaborating, but it practice it's not because nobody would know what to do with a TeX file if you sent it to them.

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Re:Pwning coworkers thanks to LaTeX by taeric on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @12:22PM (#13064440)

For me it is less about it being better at collaboration, and more that the popular alternatives are so bloody awful.

It is frustrating, because the popular choices all make better demos. But recovery is often so painful that you start living in fear of formatting mistakes.

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Re:Pwning coworkers thanks to LaTeX by ktRolster on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @10:26AM (#13063579)

put it in a directory with a Makefile, that usually solves a lot of the problem of "knowing what to do with it."

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Re:Pwning coworkers thanks to LaTeX by rgreasons on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @01:43PM (#13065183)

I would probably get some blank stares and get asked why I sent two random files and not a .docx...

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Re:Pwning coworkers thanks to LaTeX by hobarrera on Thursday December 01, 2016 @06:08PM (#13084488)

To non-editors, you'll usually just send the rendered PDF file.

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