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   dragora@kolektiva.social's status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 04:59:45 JST dragora

   • Håkan Geijer

   @hakan_geijer Wait, actual TeX and not LaTeX? I'm honestly not entirely sure of the differences there, but yeah, genuinely curious.

   I've done all my academic publishing work in vim + LaTeX, so I admittedly can't help you here.

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     dragora@kolektiva.social's status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 05:59:36 JST dragora

     • Håkan Geijer

     @hakan_geijer Ah, legit.

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     Black Flag Medical (blackflagmedical@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Oct-2023 00:19:08 JST Black Flag Medical

     • Håkan Geijer

     @hakan_geijer

     If you like working with LaTex, maybe have a look at Overleaf.

     While there is a hosted, pay-to-use version which is convenient, there's also an open source Community Edition for self hosting purposes:

     https://github.com/overleaf/overleaf

     https://www.overleaf.com/

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     Black Flag Medical (blackflagmedical@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Oct-2023 01:30:30 JST Black Flag Medical

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     • Håkan Geijer

     @hakan_geijer

     If I was to write a technical paper or text book, I’d probably consider Overleaf. Not sure if it’s something that’d assist for a work of prose.

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     Black Flag Medical (blackflagmedical@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Oct-2023 01:30:32 JST Black Flag Medical

     • Håkan Geijer

     @hakan_geijer

     I’m far from a LaTeX expert, but in my limited experience Overleaf provided a better editing experience by abstracting away the LaTeX markup, but it was still available in a specific view.

     When I’ve used LaTeX tools locally before, this has always been a bit messy, with markup visible during editing. Maybe I was just using the wrong tools.

     Overleaf also has the accessible from anywhere online and collaborative aspects, if that’s important to you.