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[-] drre@feddit.de 16 points 7 months ago

and then there are fucking PIs insisting on word files who never heard of tracked charges let alone of file naming conventions.

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 10 points 7 months ago

I dunno what a PI is, but my honours thesis supervisor was the person who first introduced me to TeX. And gods, I wish I had known about it earlier in uni, or even back in high school. It is so useful when writing any sort of papers with sections and diagrams and bibliography.

[-] 01101000_01101001@mander.xyz 14 points 7 months ago

Principal Investigator. It's the lead scientist in charge of the project.

[-] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 7 months ago

Aka, old fucks who don't even know how to save a PDF. Also the only reason I can't work with modern tools, including sending a OneDrive link for a manuscript in Word. We get to pass around a million copies of the same Word file like animals.

[-] Hundun@beehaw.org 2 points 7 months ago

Check out Typst (a newer TeX-like layout engine) if you have time, I'm interested in your opinion. I find it a bit simpler to use than TeX.

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 7 months ago

Un(?)fortunately I don't have much cause these days for either TeX or some equivalent to it. Anything I'm writing today is simple enough that it doesn't need anything more sophisticated than markdown for formatting.

[-] prashanthvsdvn@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Then start writing in Markdown. Markdown is easier in syntax, supports LaTeX equations, has metadata and is in plain text so you can use git. And the killer feature is you can use pandoc to convert the markdown file into word, pptx, LaTeX pdfs, html etc. you can also setup a make file that runs pandoc when you ask like this