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- TikZ wizardry.

- Often, I had to look deeply into forum posts to get LaTeX to format a formula in the way that I imagined (often the solution involved deep LaTeX wizardry)

- Creating a document that involves text in multiple alphabets (e.g. Latin alphabet, Greek alphabet, cyrillic alphabet). Actually trivial with Microsoft Word. ;-)

Not to even mention problems where I have no idea how to start such as how to do reproducable build processes for LaTeX documents (i.e. each run of the build process produces a binarily identical PDF document).



Tikz: don’t do that. Either use an editor that spits out a Tikz snippet (https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/80418/list-of-tikz-e...), or draw your figure in Omnigraffle or something, export to PDF and insert the figure that way.

Multiple languages: \usepackage{babel}


> - TikZ wizardry.

Yesssss




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