How do you write papers? LaTeX? I’ve written one using Oddmuse and a CSS ¹ to make it look like some printable paper. Before printing, use the page setup to remove URL and title from the paper as well, and you should be a happy camper.
Why not LaTeX? My CSS-to-LaTeX fiddling-ration is about 10:1 these days. That means I look at LaTeX about once a year. And I don’t remember the basics. I have to look the stuff up in a book every single time.
1. How do I specify the Latin-1 input-encoding exactly?
2. How do I create tables? There was some weird junk about specifying justification somewhere.
3. How do I control spacing after periods if it is an abbreviation? Mr.\~Smith or something like that?
4. How do I control spacing between numbers and units? Was it 5\,min.?
5. How the hell did bibtex work again?
6. Which package to use to include PNG files? Which package to use for EPS files? What was the exact syntax again?
Questions, questions... And I never seem to learn it, because I don’t use it enough. And since I’m a Debian unstable user, I still need to update the humongous tetex package every now and then. And so I decided: Enough is enough! No more LaTeX on my system. Let me focus on CSS.
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