has any of you actually written a paper in LaTeX that's several hundred pages long? how did you go about doing it?
Has any of you actually written a paper in LaTeX that's several hundred pages long? how did you go about doing it?
Christian Roberts
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Jaxon Kelly
I did 55 pages for my apprenticeship report
Michael Anderson
You type it as raw text first. You add placeholders for where you need illustrations and whatnot. Then you format it.
Noah Price
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Bentley Stewart
This right here The mistake I made when I tried learning TeX is that I had nothing to format in the first place so everything I read about was impossible to apply in practice
Jack Jenkins
57 page for my bachelor thesis, I use it for office communication (documents in general) and any class I might take, plus I do my weekly presentations and posters using Beamer.
Typed the shit out in nvim and just made sure my images were named the right thing. I'll use TIKZ under duress but usually just throw some shit together in inkscape.
Killer packages imo:
listings - for code
outline - for outlines
circledsteps - for formula annotation
beamer - for presentations and posters
fancyhdr - headers, footers, title pages, etc.
Jordan Flores
Yeah, I wrote my masters thesis and I've wrote all my homework in LaTeX in undergrad/grad school. I just use Emacs with AucTeX, I basically have just memorized the syntax and use macros where necessary.
Caleb Martin
I love this shit, but I wish I had a space cadet keyboard, nonetheless.
Ryan Cook
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Ryan Anderson
Nakadashi
Carson Murphy
91 pages and it was ok
Thomas Hernandez
140 pages Doctoral Thesis, as well as all my undergrad / Masters assignments.
I have a separate preamble file, where I have all my packages and any new commands.
Then a main .tex file that is basically just begin/end document, a bunch of \includes, and shit like make title contents, list of figures etc. Those includes point to .tex files in my chapters subdirectory, which also has an img subdirectory where all the pictures live.
Actual text lies in each chapter's .tex file, and is called by the main.tex includes, in an appropriate order.
Joseph Bell
150 page book
created a separate tex file for each section (about 1000 lines per section) and then used \include to put the various sections into main.tex
added chapter headers where relevant
the folder structure looked like this:
/project
── chapter_1
── chapter_2
── chapter_3
...
where each chapter had the .tex files for its sections
also used biblatex and the book package
Landon Harris
loli feet
Connor Moore
Latex is ugly in and of itself but all my assignments since some year back I've written in org mode and then exported to latex.
It's very simple. Just define title, author, bibliography, citation style. Then write the document. ToC gets auto made and references auto formatted.
Brayden Ortiz
not a paper, but I set a 240 page (A4) book/magazine type-ish document recently.
hard to describe, but there were a lof of pages with the same layout, so I had one command where I just had to insert the content and it would set these pages for me.
the biggest issue I faced were compile times, but I figures out that GNOME has a power-mode selector in the top-right menu, that was set to energy saving since forever and setting that to performance resulted in a reduction of the build time from 50s to like 10s.
But if I were to do it again, I'd probably split the chapters into separate files, like the user in suggested.
Angel Morales
it's precisely as ugly as you make it, similar to CSS that way.
Logan Baker
concentrate
Zachary Gray
No, suffer with word/google sheets and destroying the formatting any time you add an image like the rest of us
Xavier Brown
ive written two technical documents in latex, both just shy of 300 pages
i recommend you write and revise the entire document before worrying about formatting. thats what makes latex so convenient. label your sections, make your figures, add footnotes etc. then style everything at the end
Luis Hernandez
sauce? trace.moe has been acting retarded for quite some time now.
trace.moe