>>5
Of course, WTF you don't? I want to control every single pixel (or more correctly, every single EM) of my document.
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Anonymous2005-07-07 15:54
>>7
It's a freaking lot easier to convert from latex than writing html
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Anonymous2005-07-08 5:36
But using ancient, kludgy, sucky stuff is against my religion :P . Besides, CSS2 is several orders of magnitude more powerful and customizable than Latex, or MS Word for that matter. You can control every single pixel of anything. If you want any more control, you'd have to use a raster graphics editor.
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Anonymous2005-07-08 6:23
lol how well does CSS work for printing a book. you gonna use MathML?
People forget books are about consistent style not fucking font setting.
auctex + emacs + latex + previewlatex === gold
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Anonymous2005-07-08 10:01
>>9
But the idea of TeX is that you don't control what your document looks like, you define the logical structure and let the program decide how it should look. This makes it ideal for writing books or theses or whatever where the author /shouldn't/ be concerned with how it actually looks. If you want to "control every pixel" then of course you shouldn't be using TeX - or writing books :P
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abez!XWEgiX8ArQ2005-07-08 16:15
loaf you guys...
I didn't find a good style so I used
\documentclass{report}
\pagestyle{headings}
I turned numbering on and off and reset it to switch between arabic and roman numbering.
For the title page and other crap \vfill is very handy.
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Anonymous2005-07-09 12:14
>>10
Who wants to print useful, processable data, into stupid legacy, environment-unfriendly, page-oriented, no search, non-customizable, space stealing books?
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Anonymous2005-07-10 4:17
People who don't turn pasty-white by living their life in front of a monitor. And archivists.
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Anonymous2005-07-10 6:01
>>13
Most books I read these days are published online.
Book does not necessarily imply paper. It has to be readable in whatever format it is published in.
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Anonymous2005-07-10 7:02
>>15
But you aren't going to cripple it with stupid pages and other legacies just because somebody doesn't know how handle a computer mouse would want it printed into a book, right? What about the non-computer-challenged users who like to read stuff with their favorite fonts and sizes, like to search, copy, annotate, bookmark, etc.?
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Anonymous2005-07-10 7:15
>>16
Whoa, WTF? Do you know anything about latex, or do you like to argue while in a drug-induced high? I haven't seen so much BS in one paragraph on world4ch yet...
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Anonymous2005-07-10 9:26
STFU. TRADITIONAL BOOKS ARE SUPERIOR
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Anonymous2005-07-10 9:52
>>16
Gentlemen, this chap has provided a sterling example of how to display ones ignorance. I think a round of applause is in order.
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Anonymous2005-07-10 19:15
I think he confused Latex with PDF.
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Anonymous2005-07-12 9:41
I don't get why you fuckers are bashing normal books. It's not the fault of the books that you can't read.
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Anonymous2005-07-12 11:58
>>21
As far as I can tell only one person is bashing normal books.
Legacy (i.e. printed) books are shitty compared to what you can do with digital, non-Adobe'd text.
Can you do blazingly fast search and grep in books?
Can you diff in books?
Can you set your font, size, style, and colors in books?
Can you copy and paste from books?
Can you modify books?
Can you annotate, modify, and delete annotations in books?
How much space do 4.38 GB worth of text in books take compared to a DVD?
How heavy and mobile is it compared to a DVD?
How much of natural resources is taken for it compared to a DVD?
How long does a book last compared to a Taiyo Yuden DVD?
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Anonymous2005-07-15 19:51
>>23
Can you curl up in your couch and flip through a DVD containing txt files while sniffing the fine aroma of freshly printed paper?
The point of working with something like latex is that you can afterwards send it off to be printed, or convert it to pdf or html or whatever the fuck you desire, all from the same uniformly structured source. Then you can go ahead and do blazingly fast searches or whatever.
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Anonymous2005-07-15 20:45
>sniffing the fine aroma of freshly printed paper
Lol, if you're into sniffing you aren't into reading. Psst, have you tried the fine aroma of brand-new computer components? How about a Taiyo Yuden spindle you just open?
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Anonymous2005-07-15 23:02
>>25
Wow, religious boy, get off the drugs already. Your stupid outburst has been answered with regard to latex. Now go back to masturbating over your "blazing fast searches" and let the rest of us do whatever we please.
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Anonymous2005-07-16 20:23
You can grep latex and you can use version control w/ latex.
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Anonymous2005-07-17 9:41
I can't even tell what anyone's pointo are anymore. A+++++ GREAT THREAD WOULD TROLL AGAIN
Weird my reply seems to be missing. Hope I didn't post it to the wrong thread. Here it is again:
>>31
Classic case of failing to tell the difference between anonymii. I haven't contributed to this thread until >>28; I merely observed with rising mirth. My post was an expression of said mirth.
Universities frequently have a LaTeX .sty file written by some local LateX geek prof for precisely the purpose of students' theses and dissertations. Look for it. If you can't find it, hit some big schools' websites and steal their thesis style files, then mess with it to make sure it fits your own school's style requirements re: margins, font size, chapter style, etc.
It's way the hell easier than hacking your own from scratch, anyway.
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Anonymous2009-08-03 8:03
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Anonymous2009-08-03 8:06
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