Pwning coworkers thanks to LaTeX

Re:Pwning coworkers thanks to LaTeX by wodenokoto on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @08:47AM (#13062968)

I haven't found an editor, let alone my favourite editor that knows what sections exist in my latex report and can give suggestions for (any of the) ref commands, that knows what citation I have in my bib file and can do autosuggestions for the cite command. Most editors I've tried that can do some auto-completion don't know which libraries I have loaded and will suggest the same commands regardless of whether they are actually available in the given document.

I find the "favourite editor" a moot point, when it is unclear if there even is an editor that works with latex. Setting up a pipeline that can give you a PDF is also difficult beyond reason.

And then we haven't even mentioned the code. Latex is not mark-up, it is code and it is one of the most horrible programming languages I have ever had the displeasure of using.

Writing latex is painful to say the least.

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Re:Pwning coworkers thanks to LaTeX by 0xmohit on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @10:33AM (#13063628)

> Writing latex is painful to say the least.

One feels that the pain was worth it when their existing .doc files render differently using another Word version.

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Re:Pwning coworkers thanks to LaTeX by terminalcommand on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @04:53AM (#13069546)

As a law student and an avid emacs user, I write my papers in org-mode and then just export it to latex and then to pdf.

I don't know how to write a single line of latex, but I can write a beautiful paper, full with footnotes, links, italics, quotations etc. thanks to emacs.

On the other hand, on some larger papers with heavy footnotes, sometimes tex doesn't compile. Then, I find the error through trial-and-error by editing the tex file.

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