![]() Indeed Google Docs is much better - we also used that - but it's still a WYSIWYG editor, which IMHO it translates to 'extremely hard to enforce style'. > As I wrote, it does not work at all for concurrent access - I mentioned Google Docs & Co for this. ![]() If a table was placed somewhere, we could be sure it would never get moved to random places, and changes/rewrites would be always synced correctly (as LaTeX source is plain text, merging algorithms/CRDTs have a much easier time). LaTeX on an online collaborative environment (well-known, not naming it -this post isnt an ad) on the other hand, despite its archaic way of working, never showed any of those problems. Syncing was extremely bad, often with entire paragraphs in changes going missing, other times deleted portion were reappearing, all that jazz. Formatting was regularly off, tables were breaking apart, diagrams misplaced. To be clear, most of the time all of us were working on the exact same huge document. I used to work at a university lab group where all 30 of us would need to concurrently write, edit and review 150+-page, heavily technical reports with lots of diagrams and tables spanning pages. For that Google Docs is great (or some self-hosted systems) Concurrent edition i impossible, though (even when MS says it is possible). As well as all my university course papers, including the master's thesis. ß: Back on early 2000's, I wrote a book in LyX. I've since picked up writing raw latex where I need good formatting, just because I could not make LyX 2.x bend to my taste anymore. LyX 2.x was a step up in visual appeal and two steps down in raw usability. If it had had vim's search-powered navigation, it would have been nearly perfect. Fond memories of being able to type '\frac' and continue fitting in the values. Proper rendering and visually correct editing of math formulas as part of text. No whitespace or formatting issues, ever - set the document defaults according to my liking and it would feel "just right". ![]() ![]() I could force all writing to occur within central 60% of the editable screen height. But to this day, I still miss the incredible usability of LyX 1.x when writing pure long-form text. I write my code, notes, text and emails in vim. > Writing should happen where you are comfortable editing text. It's so seamless that I'd actually recommend Word->pandoc as the best way to write a complicated markdown table. My most favoritest feature so far is that it converts tables AND equations to markdown and latex perfectly. I tried writing directly in Quarto for a while, but as per my point above, it really slowed me down and distracted me from actually writing, so I figured out the pandoc pipeline. He "got it".Īs for pandoc, yes it's amazing, and I have been using it to convert my word documents to markdown so I can publish a technical textbook I'm working on using Quarto. Jack Kerouac used to type using rolls of paper instead of sheets so he didn't have to stop is his process. Writing any markup or markdown syntax in an IDE is a disaster for the creative process. To people who say "Word sux", I say "That just means you don't know how to use Word properly". People (tech people at least) have lost sight of the fact that writing should happen in "word processing software", and Word is the best-in-class. I also use Word for all my writing too, so wanted to defend you.
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