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431 points thunderbong | 1 comments | 11 Jan 25 04:13 UTC | HN request time: 0.25s | source

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ruuda ◴[11 Jan 25 06:53 UTC] No.42663877[source]▶

I think LaTeX is the poster child of this. Nobody writes a LaTeX preamble from scratch, you always copy your previous document and tweak it.

sandbach ◴[11 Jan 25 08:45 UTC] No.42664397[source]▶

Don't do that! If you're always using the same preamble, you should turn it into a .sty file. Then the preamble of new documents is just

  \usepackage{myessay}

1. fph ◴[11 Jan 25 21:47 UTC] No.42669180[source]▶

Then you make a change to myessay.sty and suddenly four of your old files stop compiling.

Be Aware of the Makefile Effect