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Re:Show HN: htmldocs - Typeset and Generate PDFs with HTML/CSS by chrisfinazzo on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @05:33PM (#39034532)
Once I had the chance to move away from Word, TeX was the first place I went. That said, I eventually tired of the obtuse error messages and felt I was making things more complicated for no real gain.

Even keeping a BasicTex environment working requires effort that HTML does not.

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Re:Show HN: htmldocs - Typeset and Generate PDFs with HTML/CSS by lelanthran on Thursday January 18, 2024 @12:07AM (#39038124)
> That said, I eventually tired of the obtuse error messages and felt I was making things more complicated for no real gain.

The error messages are pretty poor.

> Even keeping a BasicTex environment working requires effort that HTML does not.

I've been told, by Mac and Winodws users, that it's a pain.

Personally I've never had to download extra packages/styles directly on Debian. Performing `apt-get install tex-<whatever>` normally installs everything (where `<whatever>` is something I find from a search in synaptic).

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Re:Show HN: htmldocs - Typeset and Generate PDFs with HTML/CSS by chrisfinazzo on Thursday January 18, 2024 @10:15AM (#39042672)
I solved the issue by installing manually, but even that is a pain with TeX Live - some of the directory tree needed to be created before BasicTex was aware of the packages I was using.
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