I tried to write some LaTex in Windows, so I downloaded an example doc that I was planning on making changes to, but then it complained about missing a font and apparently adding a font to latex isn’t actually possible so that’s been my Latex experience :/
I had a professor that made us use LaTex for our lab reports. Kept telling us it is an industry standard. I knew it was bullshit.
Every time we had a guest speaker come and talk about their work (was in an EE program), I would ask if they used LaTex. ( I was bitter because I felt I was being forced to waste time learning something that I didn’t need to).
Every single one said no. Some didn’t even know what it was.
The professor always gave me a dirty look, but he never gave me shit about it, but he also never changed his policy.
I’ve been working as an EE for 3 years now and I have still never seen LaTex in the wild.
It’s the standard for industry research, as well. And for education (e.g., textbooks) and a lot of technical documentation.
Basically any job where you may have to type math (and make it look okay), (La)TeX will be the standard. Anything other than TeX, LaTeX or Typst for typesetting math would be pure masochism.
But if your job is to actually do things applied, and your math can be limited to scribbling on a whiteboard or a notebook and never showing anyone other than maybe a coworker or two, you will probably never have a need for LaTeX.
Oh, so you’re using Google Docs’ viewer to view a PDF hosted elsewhere? Interesting, I didn’t know that was possible. Why not just link to the PDF directly?
That would be a client side issue - your browser is using Google Docs to display the pdf. What’s in the repo is a pdf only, that works equally well in Foxit or whatever you like.
I’ve been really interested in Latex since I heard about it. Does anyone have examples of top tier use of it? I know it’s more for proper layout of equations and such, but are there examples of being used in aesthetically pleasing ways?
Actually, if you pull up some basic formatting syntax, it’s not really slower than formatting in Word. It has presets for all the placement you need for a business letter, so you really just focus on what you want to say.
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