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Re:I hate LaTeX, I love LaTeX by benoliver999 on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @09:17AM (#31491659)
I use it for stuff more than a couple of pages long, because:

- I can use my text editor of choice

- I don't have to worry about messing with the formatting by accident

- It goes through git easily

Anything shorter and I just use a word processor, it's not worth the time messing with the boilerplate.

I do use it for writing letters - I have a template I just fill out and it spits out a nicely formatted letter with an envelope.

It's also handy for when I need documents in multiple languages - you can make one change to the formatting and it changes them all.

Re:I hate LaTeX, I love LaTeX by billfruit on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @10:03AM (#31492249)
Won't asciidoc together with tools like pandoc serve the same usecase.