LaTeX? Forum

[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?

[NYC Law]

No

[Ludo!]

what the hell is LaTeX?

[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

[chem]

what the hell is LaTeX?

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

[chem]

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

[Ludo!]

what the hell is LaTeX?

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

tl;dr I vote no

[pcwcecac]

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

[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.

[chem]

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

[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.

[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.

[laxbrah420]

TeX is for math typesetting.

[Randomnumbers]

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[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

[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.

[Guchster]

No