10 May 2011

Latex sucks

Maybe I should not write blog posts when I'm angry about something... but anyway:

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Today was another wasted day, mostly caused by Latex. To sum it up: Although there is no real alternative to Latex, and I will therefore continue to use it in the future: IT SUCKS!

Consider the following problem:
I want no pagenumbers on all pages from the first, until after the list-of-tables.
If Latex would be sensibly designed, somthing like the following would work:

\pagestyle{empty}
\maketitle
\tableofcontents 
\listoffigures 
\listoftables
\pagestyle{headings}

But it doesn't! Some pages still have pagenumbers! This is what is necessary to remove ALL pagenumbers.

\usepackage{scrpage2}
[...]
\clearpage
\pagestyle{empty}
\renewcommand*{\chapterpagestyle}{empty}
\maketitle
\tableofcontents 
\listoffigures 
\listoftables
\addtocontents{toc}{\protect\thispagestyle{empty}}
\addtocontents{lof}{\protect\thispagestyle{empty}}
\addtocontents{lot}{\protect\thispagestyle{empty}}
\clearpage
\pagestyle{headings}
\renewcommand*{\chapterpagestyle}{plain} 

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And then run latex several times ...
That is too much voodoo!