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Heya, I was recently introduced to https://typst.app/ which IMO fills that niche of enough LaTeX to get most of what you need. Sincerely, Francis On Tue, Jul 18, 2023, at 11:32 AM, Dan Johnson wrote: > Dear List, > > How do you all deal with LaTeX? The LaTeX Project describes it as a > "high-quality typesetting system," but it *looks* similar to a few > different software paradigms, and this makes it hard to figure out who on a > university campus should be supporting it. > > For example, one could make the case that it's an advanced, low-level form > of word processing, which should therefore be supported with training and > problem solving by central IT, who cover Microsoft Word and Google Docs. > But it's much more than WYSIWYG word processing, and support for IT would > be a very heavy lift. > > So maybe instead you think of it as a markup system. In that case, perhaps > it's the library's digital scholarship center that should be providing > support. Yet, it's not really used for the purposes of scholarly annotation > and digital presentation of primary sources that TEI is. > > Since it's used for creating beautifully-looking articles and books, > perhaps it's a scholarly communication tool, and hence the schol comm > division of the library should support it. But the biggest use case may be > dissertation formatting, in which case perhaps a university's graduate > school or office of research should take charge (especially if they provide > a dissertation template). > > But then, the software is especially good at formatting mathematical > notations, and indeed, the vast majority of dissertations submitted with > LaTeX formatting come from the school of science, so perhaps it is > scientific computing software. In that case, maybe the college of science's > departmental IT units should bear the brunt of support. > > The final option, it seems to me, is to call it "just one of those very > helpful things," like regex, that you won't see in any formal or informal > learning environment, and so you have to figure it out on your own to be in > the know. > > How do you all parcel this out? > > Best, > Dan > > -- > *Daniel Johnson, Ph.D.* > *Interim Co-Director, Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship * > *English; Digital Humanities**; and Film, Television, and Theatre * > *Librarian* > > *University of Notre Dame* > 250C Hesburgh Library > Notre Dame, IN 46556 > o: 574-631-3457 > e: [log in to unmask]