[HN Gopher] Learnlatex.org: A place to learn LaTeX online
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       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?
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       | 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.
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       | ConTeXt links:
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       | https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Main_Page
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       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ConTeXt
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       | Mailing list: https://mailman.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
        
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