Big fan of Typst these days;

Markdown-like syntax, with LaTeX typesetting, great for technical documents at least

The last piece of documentation I wrote was in Jupyter notebook. It looked a bit basic, but it felt wonderful to be in control of my software.

I didn't know that. Is everything just a secret XLM file? Am I just an XML file?

I feel that. Markdown just does what I want better. Someday if I ever have to write a lot for work I'll actually learn LaTeX, but I just didn't have the energy to give it the effort it deserved in college

Markdown in the old WordPerfect 5.1 (reveal codes) was a great thing.

Sometimes you actually have to go to the top line of the extra page, select that break it won't let you delete because Word is the fucking worst, and change the font size to be impossibly small.

I've done this, but sometimes I get a break that can't be selected or deleted. You can search for the breaks with "ctrl + F" and enter "^p" - case sensitive, and it'll find them, but try as I might, I couldn't select or delete the stubborn one

And once you find the stay paragraph/page break, 50% chance it let's you delete it!

I think you mean ¶

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Has anyone actually tried LaTex? Because Ho Lee Fuck.

Took me like 8 hours from download to compile of my first document on Windows, and it fucking failed to compile.

Oh and it seems the generated files have trouble with ATs systems so that's fantastic. I built a pretty resume that never makes it into anyone's hands

"Hey Word, I'd like to remove the header and page number from page 6 and only page 6."

"Go fuck yourself user"

Illustrator was first, and, like all Adobe products, it has kept a lot of quirks from its past. They have worked to bring them closer, but there are fundamental differences between editing vector and editing pixel images. If you use both tools daily, the quirks they've kept sort of make sense.

Adobe didn't have a page layout program till they bought Aldus Pagemaker, which they kept going until they developed InDesign. They left Pagemaker to rot while they pushed InDesign. So InDesign was made with a similar interface to Photoshop. Same for the others--they came after Photoshop gained traction, so they all have a similar UI.

As a graphic designer, starting in '92, I used QuarkExpress, PageMaker, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, CorelDraw, and even Corel PhotoPaint. I also used Blender. I knew what each could do better than the other, and used the right tool for the job. Out of all of them CorelDraw was the most complete and broadly competent--it's Illustrator and InDesign combined. I used Corel Draw and Photoshop 80% of the time.

I don't know if it's still true, but for many years, Illustrator only had marquee select by touching, and didn't have marquee select by enclosing. Corel Draw has both, with enclosing being the default. With marquee select by enclosing, the need for layers is far less. Layers in Illustrator are needed primarily to ease selecting of multiple objects. If you wanted to select that collection of small circles that was totally enclosed by that translucent box in front of it, and they weren't on separate layers, you had a bad time.

How can they not allow LaTeX and how would they know?