The Emacs Lock-In Effect or the Emacs Sunk Cost Fallacy

Re:The Emacs Lock-In Effect or the Emacs Sunk Cost Fallacy by moron4hire on Friday August 06, 2021 @08:05PM (#28094277)

Lol, that's not the command for making a LaTeX document. The command for making a LaTeX document fills a sheet for all the shit you have to install--half of which isn't correct on whatever documentation you're reading--and THEN you can `latexmk`.

And I do mean you. I gave up after a solid week. I'll just make whatever I want in PowerPoint, save it to a PDF, and be done in 15 minutes.

Yes, I said PowerPoint. Set you're slides to 8.5x11 and it became a typesetting program. I've started getting my coworkers to use it for such and they are absolutely delighted by the bump in design quality they are getting because they aren't fighting Word anymore.

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Re:The Emacs Lock-In Effect or the Emacs Sunk Cost Fallacy by eulgro on Friday August 06, 2021 @09:32PM (#28094855)

$ sudo apt install texlive latexmk $ latexmk -pdf main.tex

I didn't try it, but it wasn't much harder than that if I recall... If you're on Windows, well, it's your loss :(

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Re:The Emacs Lock-In Effect or the Emacs Sunk Cost Fallacy by moron4hire on Friday August 06, 2021 @09:34PM (#28094861)

Excuse me for being one of the 80% of working Americans

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Re:The Emacs Lock-In Effect or the Emacs Sunk Cost Fallacy by akho on Saturday August 07, 2021 @06:23AM (#28097436)

Highly relevant username.

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Re:The Emacs Lock-In Effect or the Emacs Sunk Cost Fallacy by diffeomorphism on Saturday August 07, 2021 @02:37AM (#28096318)

So download whatever latex distro you prefer for windows, open your document, click the button. It will automatically download missing packages in the background. Done.

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Re:The Emacs Lock-In Effect or the Emacs Sunk Cost Fallacy by GiovanniP on Saturday August 07, 2021 @10:11AM (#28098717)

> I'll just make whatever I want in PowerPoint

If you use PowerPoint, you might try TeXmacs (WYSIWYG, structured and programmable).

> they are absolutely delighted by the bump in design quality

I expect them to be even more delighted :-)

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Re:The Emacs Lock-In Effect or the Emacs Sunk Cost Fallacy by CRConrad on Saturday August 07, 2021 @08:06AM (#28097962)

> Yes, I said PowerPoint. Set you're slides to 8.5x11 and it became a typesetting program.

That won't print sensibly on the paper in your printer, in most of the civilised world.

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