Please dont take this seriously guys its just a dumb meme I haven't written a single line of code in half of these languages
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Accurate. LaTeX is great, it makes you feel like you have superpowers compared to "office suite"-style software. But every once in a while you just run into some bullshit that feels like it's stuck in 1985 and it completely breaks your flow. I remember wanting to make a
longtablewhere text in the "date" column would be rotated by 90 degrees to leave more horizontal room for the other columns. It took me tworotateboxes, aphantom, avspace, ahspaceand 40 minutes of my life to get the alignment right. Would probably have taken a duckduckgo search and three clicks in Libreoffice.Funnily enough I had a similar problem but I wanted text instead of a date. In the end I used a solution similar to yours and adjusted each cell entry manually for hours. Feels like there should be a lot simpler solution for this problem in LaTeX. Glad I don't need to use it anymore...
u/vox@sopuli.xyz suggested Typst as an alternative to TeX. I gave it a try, and I'm loving it so far. It even has built-in support for the rotated text thing https://typst.app/docs/reference/model/table . I've only used it for notes/homework so far, but I'm looking forward to seeing how it fares for more serious typesetting tasks.
That looks interesting, thanks for the ping. I will give it a try.