Lukas C. Bossert1d ago
DKZ.2R

Still fighting with Word to format your thesis? LaTeX handles citations, cross-references, figures, and formatting automatically — so you can focus on writing, not fixing page breaks.

Our workshop covers everything from setup to submission-ready documents.

Have a look at the self-learn content we created in the style of @thecarpentries

👉 https://dkz2r.github.io/latex-novice-academic-publishing/01-introduction.html

#TeXLaTeX #AcademicWriting #Research #Workshop

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Mar 20 at 6:15amDaily Post (GitLab)
Show threadRasmus Lindegaard6d ago
@dkz2r @thecarpentries LaTeX is amazing. You just need to spend the time required to get familiar
Show threadLukas C. Bossert6d ago
@rasmus91 @dkz2r @thecarpentries I agree the learning curve is steep, but it is worth it. The possibilites are endless. Always my number one tool when I need to have the outcome to be printed.
Show threadFrederik Elwert6d ago
@lukascbossert @rasmus91 @dkz2r @thecarpentries LaTeX is a decent typesetting engine (although internally it's more of a stack of hacks on top of each other). But I don't think it's a great authoring environment. “Focus on wiring instead of formatting” is a myth if you have to literally weave formatting commands into your writing.
Show threadFrederik Elwert6d ago
@lukascbossert @rasmus91 @dkz2r @thecarpentries I've been there, I've done that. I wrote my PhD thesis with LaTeX. But if I teach text production now, I usually advocate for markdown based workflows where LaTeX remains an invisible typesetting engine in the background. And maybe at some point event that should be replaced by typst or something like that.
Show threadLukas C. Bossert6d ago

@felwert @rasmus91 @dkz2r @thecarpentries This is understanable and I’d say it always depends on what you want to achieve. For a lightweight "just writing some text" I prefer always(!) #Emacs with #org-mode . But in my PhD thesis (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2548872) I did things I was only capable of doing using #TeXLaTeX - it is always a trade of.

I dont know any other tool that would be able to create such data-driven visualizations:

(source: https://git.rwth-aachen.de/dl/templates/data-driven-visualization)

Show threadFrederik Elwert6d ago
@lukascbossert @rasmus91 @dkz2r @thecarpentries Looks neat! And sure, it's great for power users. I guess something similar could be implemented with RMarkdown/Quarto, though? I do admit that some of the power of simpler systems comes from the ability to write LaTeX if you have to, and that requires training.
Show threadτεχniker3d ago
@felwert
How would you achieve text formatting without weaving markup into your writing?

@lukascbossert @rasmus91 @dkz2r @thecarpentries
Show threadFrederik Elwert3d ago

@TeXniker Well, I wouldn't, but I think there's a big difference between the unobtrusive markup of markdown and the verbose, English-language formatting instructions of LaTeX.

@lukascbossert @rasmus91 @dkz2r @thecarpentries