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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You don’t compile a book

The irony

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm surprised this is still getting responses.
Fair jab, but I was obviously the computing term, implying "...from source code".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, even in that sense… the irony

Ok I’ll stop being a prick 😂 if you haven’t used Latex before, you do write source code that gets compiled into PDF/PPT/whatever

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I have some experience with Latex, but afaik, it's mostly for writing mathematical formulas and stuff, no?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Sort of, if you’re writing a research paper or presentation or something like that with a lot of math in it, you can use Latex (for the whole thing, not just the formulas). It’s 10000X better than writing the same stuff in Word, especially if you know how to code