@mpjgregoire@mamot.fr +1 to this.

@zleap @mpjgregoire ... i think i spent more time fiddling with the LaTeX formatting than writing the content of my thesis tbh

@piggo @mpjgregoire@mamot.fr

Yeah good point there, once you have a template it should be fine, it is getting to that point that is the hardest thing usually.

@zleap @mpjgregoire it was just things constantly wrapping themselves to the wrong page or misaligned figures and nonsense like that. ohh and overfull hbox, whatever that meant

@piggo @mpjgregoire@mamot.fr

I get that, i think it means too much text in an element.

but trying to get an image to be where you put it is a challenge.

@zleap @piggo

After writing thousands of pages in LaTeX and about the same amount in Word/LO Writer, I think it's not about the time you spent enforcing some (often unreasonable) formatting onto your document. It's more about the level of control you feel to have about it. As an expert TeX user, I feel more in control as it does not do some blackbox magic on me like all the Words and Writers. But overall I spend about the same amount of time fiddling with either 😞 .

Maybe this is one of those problems where we don't have a choice _whether_ we'll meet the enemy, nor how big/ugly the enemy will be. We just have a choice _where_ and _when_ will it happen.

@mpjgregoire@mamot.fr