It's another LaTeX document that uses Computer Modern

>It's another LaTeX document that uses Computer Modern

Why do people still use this shitty font? It looks like absolute shit on a screen as it's too thin

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Fact:sans serif fonts are for children

Because it's a pleasure to read.

I find it harder to scroll throughtexts with serif fonts than sans-serif.

>not using Palatino, Garamond or even fucking Times New Roman

Admit it user, you just have shit taste in fonts.

>LaTeX
Go and eat a dick. Unless your doing your math degree in which case LaTeX is prob compulsory, so in that case my condolences for all the dick you had to eat.

>It looks like absolute shit on a screen
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Damn I really want to like latex but every time I did into a be document I end up with 50 browser tabs open on how to do anything. And even though it's supposed to be smart about placement, inevitably a table gets placed in a way where it breaks a part a listing of source code or sundering funky like that.

Anyways I end up using xelatex to use otf fonts because deciphering latex font packages is ridiculously obtuse.

Is imagine over the years you end up with a great template and you don't have to remember all the boiler plate shit.

Yeah I remember my advisors telling me it's great because it allows you to focus on content and not typesetting.

But I ended up having to manually place and relocate half of the shit I put in there anyway.

To be fair, it's pretty convenient how you can manage references and how it automatically enumerates your titles and sections and shit.

But if you need anything more than plain text and maybe some equations you're fucked.

>ridiculously obtuse
have you tried, iunno, \usepackage{packagename} yet?

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>>LaTeX
>Go and eat a dick. Unless your doing your math degree in which case LaTeX is prob compulsory, so in that case my condolences for all the dick you had to eat.

TEX is mandatory for every Master level plus degree at my university.

That's what I mean though, you gotta go find the package name and how to set it. Some of the don't package names are retarded. Especially when looking through all the latex packages you inevitably end up having installed, or are searching through.

There is literally no reason ever *not* to use XeLaTeX.

I teach chemistry, and it's ridiculously easy to rustle up a Beamer presentation with immaculately-presented formulae, equations, and structures in it. And which won't shit itself every five minutes, like Powerpoint.

that's why resources like the dutch usergroup have a font catalogue, this is honestly trivial stuff after a few times

>he doesn't frontload his paperwriting's hard part
enjoy your mediocre Word aesthetic and nontrivial troubleshooting.

That's why I end up having 50 tabs open. Tbf I only used it for 3 documents and lost all the files in the years between writing them, so I basically forget everything I did prior.
I'd imagine once I have a good base of templates/documents it will become faster

>serif-fonts
Gee grandpa, you know we don't need serifs for media that isn't being printed with woodblocks, right?

Serifs existed to compensate for a mechanical issue. Sans-serif fonts can exist because we no longer need serifs for legibility.

Stop living in the past.

it's horribly slow compared to everything else

It's a font for printed documents you fucking moron.

>Why do people still use this shitty font?

do even if someone creates a pdf or prints their doc they can still see he did it with latex :^)

Roboto is the least fucking autistic font. No decorations, none of that retarded bullshit, just fucking letters, like it should be. Seriously I really wish that it would be fucking punishable by death to use anything else. Caring what letters look like over just being able to fucking read them is pure fucking autism.

I think that's his point. Some people use the font even if it's going to be usually read on a computer, where it typically looks less than pleasant.

That's the point I was trying to get across.