However, just in case anyone is starting out in LaTeX, I've been involved in over 100 papers written in LaTeX, and wrote my thesis, and it is incredibly rare that I've found the speed at which I can edit LaTeX in an advanced way was my limiting factor.
Nowadays I often use overleaf, which has an incredibly simplistic editor, but makes multi-person editing so easy I find it worth it.
The one 'avanced feature' I do find really useful is finding 'jump to this point in the PDF' from your editor, and 'jump to this point in the LaTeX' back from your PDF viewer back to the editor.
That sounds really cool. Can you give me a link or at least the name of a piece of software with this feature? Is Overleaf it? Is there an offline piece of software with such a feature? Thanks!
Many A.I. or maths conferences won't provide a Word template, only LaTeX. Other conferences and journals I've been involved with are Word only. Trying to fight against the default generally isn't worth the pain.
In many cases, authors need only basic TeX, which can be rendered by LaTeX, ConTeXt, and other TeX-based typesetting solutions. My desktop text editor, KeenWrite, provides such basic TeX rendering in real-time. See the screenshots [2] for examples of inline math, variables, and applying different themes to PDF files based on a single source document.
[0]: https://wiki.contextgarden.net/
[1]: https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/2020/04/28/typesetting-markdow...
[2]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite/blob/master/docs/scr...
Lyx [1] is also great.
Personally I find it more comfortable to use TeXmacs for quick/throwaway notes, and macros in longer documents for better readability.
