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LibreOffice wee (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works
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Now. Why am I wrong for Libre

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[–] 51 points 11 months ago (10 children)

I was working on my thesis a couple days ago using Word, and it permanently deleted a whole line of text when I pressed ctrl+Z to undo a mistake.

That happened with every line on the page until i copied everything to a different text editor and then copied it back to Word.

I respect your take but I will never respect Word.

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  • [–] 21 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    Using word for a thesis sounds like a nightmare I would never dare to do

    For big projects like that, stuff like LaTeX is so much better in my experience, you could even set up version control for it with, say, git, or similar

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  • [–] 14 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    "I love typing in ten thousand pounds of syntatic sugar"

    -- me, an idiot who used embedded images for formulas in a markdown file which gets converted into a PDF

    "Totally way easier than LaTeX, I swear"

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  • [–] 16 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    You may benefit from checking out Typst which gives all of the benefits (and some more) of LaTeX, but without all of the syntax garbage.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    Actually learned about this recently too and it looks really cool, but haven't had to use latex in a while so I'll defnitley give it a shot next time I have to do document generation

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 child)

    I actually wrote most of it in Obsidian, just copied all of it to Word for final edits because I have to use my school's docx template.

    Definitely trying LaTeX if I end up getting another degree, only learned about it a few days ago. And I just now realized that I could've used git with Obsidian this whole time...

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