[HN Gopher] Learnlatex.org: A place to learn LaTeX online ___________________________________________________________________ Learnlatex.org: A place to learn LaTeX online Author : JohnHammersley Score : 16 points Date : 2021-03-17 22:25 UTC (34 minutes ago) (HTM) web link (www.learnlatex.org) (TXT) w3m dump (www.learnlatex.org) | marcodiego wrote: | I don't like latex. But alternatives look still worse for me. It | is like a Stockholm syndrome. | brian_herman wrote: | I used this in school it is great! | Hydraulix989 wrote: | Why do the lessons only have code but not the rendered results? | It's difficult to follow along if you don't know what the code is | actually doing... | tffgg wrote: | I know it's unrealistic, but I wish someone would reinvent Latex. | I don't really want anyone to learn it. It's sad it seems kind of | the best tools for advanced use out there... | nsajko wrote: | The reinvention is called ConTeXt. | flenserboy wrote: | It's not difficult to learn at a base level. The real | difficulty in learning LaTeX is becoming comfortable with | handing the keys over when it comes to presentation -- WYSIWYG | grabs people easily, and, once taken in, it is tremendously | difficult to break them of their urge to fiddle with things. In | many ways it is _good_ that it takes some doing to do more than | the basics -- nice output for basic documents is almost a | guarantee. | nsajko wrote: | Fun fact: about 20 years ago, LaTeX developers were lamenting the | stagnation of LaTeX and LaTeX being surpassed on a technical | level by its new competitor (in the TeX world), ConTeXt. | | Since then LaTeX has basically kept on stagnating in the name of | backwards compatibility, while ConTeXt keeps on progressing; it | already broke backwards compatibility several times (it's latest | implementation is LMTX). | | But the inertia is so powerful that nobody except TeX geeks even | knows what ConTeXt is. How does that happen? | | Sidenote: it's not just about ConTeXt, even LuaTeX, the latest | (but not new anymore) implementation of TeX in general, is being | ignored by scientific publishers. | | Meanwhile, ConTeXt is mostly used for demanding typesetting of | books. | | And, BTW, using ConTeXt (or LuaTeX) doesn't even necessarily mean | writing TeX anymore, it's possible to drive the engines through | the Lua C API, or with XML, etc. | | ConTeXt links: | | https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Main_Page | | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ConTeXt | | Mailing list: https://mailman.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-03-17 23:00 UTC)