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 Post subject: LaTeX?
PostPosted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 11:42 am 
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From what I gathered reading about notes, memos, law review, things like that, is that proper format is crucially important. Italicized commas and the like. Maybe that was hyperbole that I took for fact, but what I do know is that I have always been bad at formatting things in Microsoft word. It takes me around 5 minutes to separate page numbers. I have the opportunity to learn LaTeX. Is it worth learning for law school?


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 Post subject: Re: LaTeX?
PostPosted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 12:01 pm 
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 Post subject: Re: LaTeX?
PostPosted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 12:10 pm 
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what the hell is LaTeX?


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 Post subject: Re: LaTeX?
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If you want to make your papers look badass and don't feel like writing your papers with code, you should look into lyx


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 Post subject: Re: LaTeX?
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Ludovico Technique wrote:
what the hell is LaTeX?


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX


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 Post subject: Re: LaTeX?
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laxbrah420 wrote:
If you want to make your papers look badass and don't feel like writing your papers with code, you should look into lyx


Looks like thats probably the right call


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 Post subject: Re: LaTeX?
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chem wrote:
Ludovico Technique wrote:
what the hell is LaTeX?


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX


tl;dr I vote no


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 Post subject: Re: LaTeX?
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laxbrah420 wrote:
If you want to make your papers look badass and don't feel like writing your papers with code, you should look into lyx


Lyx +1000000000000000000000000


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 Post subject: Re: LaTeX?
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If you can't figure out how to highlight the entire case name + comma and hit ctrl + i/u, god help you.

This looks 99% useless for legal writing. The bitch is bluebooking, which this doesn't help with. Formatting generally isn't that big of a deal.


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 Post subject: Re: LaTeX?
PostPosted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 12:23 pm 
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NYC Law wrote:
If you can't figure out how to highlight the entire case name + comma and hit ctrl + i/u, god help you.

This looks 99% useless for legal writing. The bitch is bluebooking, which this doesn't help with. Formatting generally isn't that big of a deal.


Thanks. I have no idea what is required really, thats why I was asking


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 Post subject: Re: LaTeX?
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I have no idea about law school, but I would believe it if LaTex is not that helpful. That said, it only took me a few hours to learn the basics, so it's not that much of an investment if you want to do it anyway.


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 Post subject: Re: LaTeX?
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TeX is for math. Not a lot of advanced algebra in your average note or memo. If you're considering exciting careers in science publishing instead of law, then go for it.


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 Post subject: Re: LaTeX?
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Nelson wrote:
TeX is for math typesetting.


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 Post subject: Re: LaTeX?
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 Post subject: Re: LaTeX?
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sciences (social and natural) use it too, dudes. it makes publishing in academic journals way easier because you just write your stuff and then apply the template at the end


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 Post subject: Re: LaTeX?
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Absolutely no. You need to learn office. You'll have to format and share documents in practice and partners won't be learning LaTeX.


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 Post subject: Re: LaTeX?
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NYC Law wrote:
No


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