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I become a software developer later in life and never had the privilege to go to university, so sometimes I’m out of the loop on older tech.

How did Latex compare to modern Git?

[-] derGottesknecht@feddit.de 6 points 5 months ago

Latex is no versioning tool but a textsetting language. It outputs perfectly formatted Documents after building and takes care of aranging images, quotes and all the tedious stuff so after setting up your template you only have to care about content. It works well with git.

Not like word where adding an image fucks the whole formatting.

Interesting.

Yeah word sucks. I’m a software developer now and have to deal with Word and Excel more than I ever thought I would.

[-] derGottesknecht@feddit.de 4 points 5 months ago

I'm a softwaredev too, we use this for our manual. Its writen in markdown, which we convert with pandoc to latex. We can use git for versioning and merging and the manuals always look very nice.

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