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[–] A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children) 
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{soul}
\begin{document}
I'm 19 and I know how to use \LaTeX, \LaTeX is more used in academia, they taught me \LaTeX in Uni, but a lot of other people just won't ever heard of it because is rare to find in other places, most technical degrees and even a lot of uni ones won't use it \st{even if it's vastly superior to word}.

\huge \LaTeX rules
\end{document}
[–] thehatfox@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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I think you dropped this.

[–] A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 3 points 6 months ago

You have to excuse me, texstudio adds automatically the closing one.

[–] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Same except that I taught myself. Written two essays for uni already with it and knew from the start that I wouldn't touch word if I didn't absolutely need it.

Latex is confusing, the errors are often even less clear than Python or Java tracebacks, some packages have weird API or don't work together, and I had to make a build script to work with it, but besides that, I have a good language and environment now to create pretty good PDFs with, including VCS with git and not having to use an editor that is not neovim.

If you want to look deeper, there are a few more typesetting languages, some with more modern syntax. Markdown is surely the easiest, but not quite as powerful.

Btw, is soul a real package?

[–] A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 1 points 5 months ago

Yes, the \LaTeX code I wrote is 100% compilable.

I also learned most \LaTeX myself, school just taught me the basic sintaxis, but is widely used amongst students and academics.