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minus-squareAXLplosion@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoI was working on my thesis a couple days ago using Word, and it permanently deleted a whole line of text when I pressed ctrl+Z to undo a mistake. That happened with every line on the page until i copied everything to a different text editor and then copied it back to Word. I respect your take but I will never respect Word.
minus-squareSkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoUsing word for a thesis sounds like a nightmare I would never dare to do For big projects like that, stuff like LaTeX is so much better in my experience, you could even set up version control for it with, say, git, or similar
minus-squaremlg@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months ago“I love typing in ten thousand pounds of syntatic sugar” – me, an idiot who used embedded images for formulas in a markdown file which gets converted into a PDF “Totally way easier than LaTeX, I swear”
I was working on my thesis a couple days ago using Word, and it permanently deleted a whole line of text when I pressed ctrl+Z to undo a mistake.
That happened with every line on the page until i copied everything to a different text editor and then copied it back to Word.
I respect your take but I will never respect Word.
Using word for a thesis sounds like a nightmare I would never dare to do
For big projects like that, stuff like LaTeX is so much better in my experience, you could even set up version control for it with, say, git, or similar
“I love typing in ten thousand pounds of syntatic sugar”
– me, an idiot who used embedded images for formulas in a markdown file which gets converted into a PDF
“Totally way easier than LaTeX, I swear”