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LaTeX?
Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 11:42 am
by chem
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?
Re: LaTeX?
Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 12:01 pm
by NYC Law
No
Re: LaTeX?
Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 12:10 pm
by Ludo!
what the hell is LaTeX?
Re: LaTeX?
Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 12:13 pm
by laxbrah420
If you want to make your papers look badass and don't feel like writing your papers with code, you should look into lyx
Re: LaTeX?
Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 12:14 pm
by chem
Ludovico Technique wrote:what the hell is LaTeX?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX
Re: LaTeX?
Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 12:15 pm
by chem
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
Re: LaTeX?
Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 12:16 pm
by Ludo!
Re: LaTeX?
Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 12:18 pm
by pcwcecac
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
Re: LaTeX?
Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 12:21 pm
by NYC Law
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.
Re: LaTeX?
Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 12:23 pm
by chem
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
Re: LaTeX?
Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 12:29 pm
by seismo
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.
Re: LaTeX?
Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 12:33 pm
by Nelson
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.
Re: LaTeX?
Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 12:37 pm
by laxbrah420
Nelson wrote:TeX is for math typesetting.
Re: LaTeX?
Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 3:51 pm
by Randomnumbers
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Re: LaTeX?
Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 3:55 pm
by laxbrah420
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
Re: LaTeX?
Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 3:56 pm
by 03121202698008
Absolutely no. You need to learn office. You'll have to format and share documents in practice and partners won't be learning LaTeX.
Re: LaTeX?
Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 4:06 pm
by Guchster