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[–] lowleveldata@programming.dev 53 points 2 years ago (7 children) Git is like shit for Word documents permalink fedilink source hideshow 14 child comments replies: [–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 63 points 2 years ago (1 child) But better for LaTeX permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] drre@feddit.de 16 points 2 years ago (2 children) and then there are fucking PIs insisting on word files who never heard of tracked charges let alone of file naming conventions. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 10 points 2 years ago (2 children) I dunno what a PI is, but my honours thesis supervisor was the person who first introduced me to TeX. And gods, I wish I had known about it earlier in uni, or even back in high school. It is so useful when writing any sort of papers with sections and diagrams and bibliography. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] 01101000_01101001@mander.xyz 14 points 2 years ago Principal Investigator. It's the lead scientist in charge of the project. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Hundun@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Check out Typst (a newer TeX-like layout engine) if you have time, I'm interested in your opinion. I find it a bit simpler to use than TeX. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 2 years ago Un(?)fortunately I don't have much cause these days for either TeX or some equivalent to it. Anything I'm writing today is simple enough that it doesn't need anything more sophisticated than markdown for formatting. permalink fedilink source parent [–] prashanthvsdvn@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) Then start writing in Markdown. Markdown is easier in syntax, supports LaTeX equations, has metadata and is in plain text so you can use git. And the killer feature is you can use pandoc to convert the markdown file into word, pptx, LaTeX pdfs, html etc. you can also setup a make file that runs pandoc when you ask like this permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] drre@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago yeah this is what i used for some projects, i.e. rmarkdown which also integrates the statistics part permalink fedilink source parent [–] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 38 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children) That's why we wrote our thesis in LaTeX: https://github.com/jonte/GGS-report/blob/a9d9d20bcc22a524629e371ce5984f131490b743/report.lyx#L362 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 years ago I also have my reports in latex inside a git repo, complete with a makefile to generate graphs from csv containing simulation results. However I am too ashamed to publish the entire version control to a public repo permalink fedilink source parent [–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) #LyX 2.0 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/ Wait, I thought you guys did it manually... Anyway, I should still learn it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 1 point 2 years ago It's a editor helping you writing it, you cat still go inside and change things manually if you need/want to do that. permalink fedilink source parent [–] vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 2 years ago Unzip the docx with a pre-commit hook (This is not a serious suggestion) permalink fedilink source parent [–] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 25 points 2 years ago Just like word documents are shit for papers and theses/dissertations it turns out. The formatting alone is a nightmare. permalink fedilink source parent [–] steventhedev@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago .gitattributes can invoke Word on windows to diff versions, and there are plenty of open source scripts that can do it if you don't have a copy of Word (or Windows) lying around. But Word is like shit for papers. Use LaTeX instead. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Hundun@beehaw.org 11 points 2 years ago* (3 children) Why on Earth would you curse yourself with MS Office anyway, especially if writing docs is your professional responsibility? Why not use Git+Markdown+Pandoc, have your copy, data and layout separate? I understand that a lot of istitutions/companies impose stylistic/technical requirements for docs and publications, - still doesn't mean you gotta stay married to the worst tooling. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] lowleveldata@programming.dev 6 points 2 years ago (1 child) Why on Earth would you curse yourself with MS Office anyway idk it says .docx in OP's image permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Hundun@beehaw.org 1 point 2 years ago Oh sorry, I was too focused on calling out the silliness of the idea. permalink fedilink source parent [+] fossilesque@mander.xyz [S] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent [–] titey@jlai.lu 2 points 2 years ago This is the way. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Opafi@feddit.de 8 points 2 years ago Still better than using file names. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 63 points 2 years ago (1 child) But better for LaTeX permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] drre@feddit.de 16 points 2 years ago (2 children) and then there are fucking PIs insisting on word files who never heard of tracked charges let alone of file naming conventions. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 10 points 2 years ago (2 children) I dunno what a PI is, but my honours thesis supervisor was the person who first introduced me to TeX. And gods, I wish I had known about it earlier in uni, or even back in high school. It is so useful when writing any sort of papers with sections and diagrams and bibliography. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] 01101000_01101001@mander.xyz 14 points 2 years ago Principal Investigator. It's the lead scientist in charge of the project. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Hundun@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Check out Typst (a newer TeX-like layout engine) if you have time, I'm interested in your opinion. I find it a bit simpler to use than TeX. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 2 years ago Un(?)fortunately I don't have much cause these days for either TeX or some equivalent to it. Anything I'm writing today is simple enough that it doesn't need anything more sophisticated than markdown for formatting. permalink fedilink source parent [–] prashanthvsdvn@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) Then start writing in Markdown. Markdown is easier in syntax, supports LaTeX equations, has metadata and is in plain text so you can use git. And the killer feature is you can use pandoc to convert the markdown file into word, pptx, LaTeX pdfs, html etc. you can also setup a make file that runs pandoc when you ask like this permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] drre@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago yeah this is what i used for some projects, i.e. rmarkdown which also integrates the statistics part permalink fedilink source parent
[–] drre@feddit.de 16 points 2 years ago (2 children) and then there are fucking PIs insisting on word files who never heard of tracked charges let alone of file naming conventions. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 10 points 2 years ago (2 children) I dunno what a PI is, but my honours thesis supervisor was the person who first introduced me to TeX. And gods, I wish I had known about it earlier in uni, or even back in high school. It is so useful when writing any sort of papers with sections and diagrams and bibliography. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] 01101000_01101001@mander.xyz 14 points 2 years ago Principal Investigator. It's the lead scientist in charge of the project. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Hundun@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Check out Typst (a newer TeX-like layout engine) if you have time, I'm interested in your opinion. I find it a bit simpler to use than TeX. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 2 years ago Un(?)fortunately I don't have much cause these days for either TeX or some equivalent to it. Anything I'm writing today is simple enough that it doesn't need anything more sophisticated than markdown for formatting. permalink fedilink source parent [–] prashanthvsdvn@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) Then start writing in Markdown. Markdown is easier in syntax, supports LaTeX equations, has metadata and is in plain text so you can use git. And the killer feature is you can use pandoc to convert the markdown file into word, pptx, LaTeX pdfs, html etc. you can also setup a make file that runs pandoc when you ask like this permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] drre@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago yeah this is what i used for some projects, i.e. rmarkdown which also integrates the statistics part permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 10 points 2 years ago (2 children) I dunno what a PI is, but my honours thesis supervisor was the person who first introduced me to TeX. And gods, I wish I had known about it earlier in uni, or even back in high school. It is so useful when writing any sort of papers with sections and diagrams and bibliography. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] 01101000_01101001@mander.xyz 14 points 2 years ago Principal Investigator. It's the lead scientist in charge of the project. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Hundun@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Check out Typst (a newer TeX-like layout engine) if you have time, I'm interested in your opinion. I find it a bit simpler to use than TeX. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 2 years ago Un(?)fortunately I don't have much cause these days for either TeX or some equivalent to it. Anything I'm writing today is simple enough that it doesn't need anything more sophisticated than markdown for formatting. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] 01101000_01101001@mander.xyz 14 points 2 years ago Principal Investigator. It's the lead scientist in charge of the project. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Hundun@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Check out Typst (a newer TeX-like layout engine) if you have time, I'm interested in your opinion. I find it a bit simpler to use than TeX. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 2 years ago Un(?)fortunately I don't have much cause these days for either TeX or some equivalent to it. Anything I'm writing today is simple enough that it doesn't need anything more sophisticated than markdown for formatting. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 2 years ago Un(?)fortunately I don't have much cause these days for either TeX or some equivalent to it. Anything I'm writing today is simple enough that it doesn't need anything more sophisticated than markdown for formatting. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] prashanthvsdvn@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) Then start writing in Markdown. Markdown is easier in syntax, supports LaTeX equations, has metadata and is in plain text so you can use git. And the killer feature is you can use pandoc to convert the markdown file into word, pptx, LaTeX pdfs, html etc. you can also setup a make file that runs pandoc when you ask like this permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] drre@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago yeah this is what i used for some projects, i.e. rmarkdown which also integrates the statistics part permalink fedilink source parent
[–] drre@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago yeah this is what i used for some projects, i.e. rmarkdown which also integrates the statistics part permalink fedilink source parent
[–] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 38 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children) That's why we wrote our thesis in LaTeX: https://github.com/jonte/GGS-report/blob/a9d9d20bcc22a524629e371ce5984f131490b743/report.lyx#L362 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 years ago I also have my reports in latex inside a git repo, complete with a makefile to generate graphs from csv containing simulation results. However I am too ashamed to publish the entire version control to a public repo permalink fedilink source parent [–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) #LyX 2.0 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/ Wait, I thought you guys did it manually... Anyway, I should still learn it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 1 point 2 years ago It's a editor helping you writing it, you cat still go inside and change things manually if you need/want to do that. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 years ago I also have my reports in latex inside a git repo, complete with a makefile to generate graphs from csv containing simulation results. However I am too ashamed to publish the entire version control to a public repo permalink fedilink source parent
[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) #LyX 2.0 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/ Wait, I thought you guys did it manually... Anyway, I should still learn it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 1 point 2 years ago It's a editor helping you writing it, you cat still go inside and change things manually if you need/want to do that. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 1 point 2 years ago It's a editor helping you writing it, you cat still go inside and change things manually if you need/want to do that. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 2 years ago Unzip the docx with a pre-commit hook (This is not a serious suggestion) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 25 points 2 years ago Just like word documents are shit for papers and theses/dissertations it turns out. The formatting alone is a nightmare. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] steventhedev@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago .gitattributes can invoke Word on windows to diff versions, and there are plenty of open source scripts that can do it if you don't have a copy of Word (or Windows) lying around. But Word is like shit for papers. Use LaTeX instead. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Hundun@beehaw.org 11 points 2 years ago* (3 children) Why on Earth would you curse yourself with MS Office anyway, especially if writing docs is your professional responsibility? Why not use Git+Markdown+Pandoc, have your copy, data and layout separate? I understand that a lot of istitutions/companies impose stylistic/technical requirements for docs and publications, - still doesn't mean you gotta stay married to the worst tooling. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] lowleveldata@programming.dev 6 points 2 years ago (1 child) Why on Earth would you curse yourself with MS Office anyway idk it says .docx in OP's image permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Hundun@beehaw.org 1 point 2 years ago Oh sorry, I was too focused on calling out the silliness of the idea. permalink fedilink source parent [+] fossilesque@mander.xyz [S] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent [–] titey@jlai.lu 2 points 2 years ago This is the way. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] lowleveldata@programming.dev 6 points 2 years ago (1 child) Why on Earth would you curse yourself with MS Office anyway idk it says .docx in OP's image permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Hundun@beehaw.org 1 point 2 years ago Oh sorry, I was too focused on calling out the silliness of the idea. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Hundun@beehaw.org 1 point 2 years ago Oh sorry, I was too focused on calling out the silliness of the idea. permalink fedilink source parent
[+] fossilesque@mander.xyz [S] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Opafi@feddit.de 8 points 2 years ago Still better than using file names. permalink fedilink source parent
