Tech

OK…

Lately I’ve been poking at updating and improving my usual offline mapping setup on Android. For the last few years or so I’ve been GPX tracking my outings, adventures and some other stuff. Mainly for photo geotagging but also because it can be neat to see where I was and when after a day trip.

When out and about I insist on purely offline maps too. I like being away from the modern world, notifications and distractions. So… my phone ends up in places without cell service or the SIM card removed.

[Editors note: this post was inspired by ‘Reach for Markdown, not LaTeX’ (link)]

Years and years ago I learned about a wonderful markup language called LaTeX. It was far more powerful than HTML, had many templates available, handled math correctly and generally ‘just worked’.

Having content and presentation generally separate was a freeing moment in my journey through markup languages.

Once I discovered this disconnect I became an instant and heavy user of markup languages. I’ve used many over the years and LaTeX always reigned supreme for me. It’s flexible, adept and works beautifully.