Is LaTeX difficult to learn? An article stated something about how its syntax is inscrutable, from what memory will allow before the caffeine hits.
Source : wrote my MLaw papers with it.
LaTeX itself can be easy for simple things (pick a template, and put text in each section). And it can grow into almost anything if you put in enough effort. It is far and away the standard way to write math equations, so if your document has lots of formulas, that's a plus.
I never wrote latex before, but writing a simple PDF / scholarly article from code is pretty easy with current tools if you're a dev
I tripped over a lot of abandonware while looking for a free OSS HTML->PDF solution, recently. What do you recommend?
# justfile ── put in repo root set shell := ["bash", "-cu"] # one shell → predictable env, pipe-fail, etc.
# Build a PDF once pdf: tectonic -X compile src-v0.1/main.tex --outdir target/pdf # or swap for typst
# Clean artefacts clean: rm -rf target
# Live-reload while writing watch: cargo watch -q -x 'just pdf'
then i just split the paper in sections like react components but using tex
main.tex
\documentclass{article}
\input{preamble}
\begin{document} \maketitle
\input{sections/abstract}
\input{sections/introduction}
\input{sections/syntax}
\input{sections/evaluation}
\input{sections/conclusion}
\end{document}