Comments on Profile Post by Vtory

I couldn’t have written my dissertation without LaTeX. Or more specifically, LyX

Rust is a good one to learn; lends itself well to blockchain and AI work

BTW, I remember a member here was a contributor to the LyX project

And here was I thinking that you were talking about rubber and oxidation! :o:

Well, OK, I've never used either. But I was a Unix man and should have known better. (And before that I did phototypesetting, all mark-up language (Linotype) on a totally dumb-terminal screen. With very precise results sometimes. for stuff like complex forms and word wrap. )

Loved all that stuff! Loved vi. And awk.

@Cspirou Was frustrated with MS Word for decades. I feel like to gain a better control over my document. Also gets along with Git well! Eye opening.

@MisterRogers To GC-addict like me, Rust encouraged low-level thinking, but not like C++ but rather much more elegant and motivating.

@Thad E Ginathom Thoroughly enjoying to separate markup and content. But still need pdf preview as a noob!

I actually started my dissertation with MS Word and I was getting overwhelmed with all the formatting that I switched to a LyX template one of my grad school friends made. It might have annoyed my advisor not being able to have revisions on an MS Word doc but it saved me an immense amount of time and stress.

Now I try to make docs with LaTeX/LyX all the time. I’m currently working on a recipe layout

If using LaTex, beware of it being mistaken for ChatGPT :)

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00349-5