latex

thin rubber material most commonly -ssociated with s-xual fetishes, in particular bdsm. common clothing items might include: tight leggings, corsets, mini-dress’ etc… whilst most commonly found in black, latex can come in any colour. this material is slightly stretchy (although it can tear easily), is photosensitive (so should be kept out of sunlight) and should be oiled before each use with special latex oil to give it that glossy shine.
jesus, she was so hot in that skin-tight latex mini-skirt!
a typesetting program often used by mathematicians to write doc-ments and proofs. it has many libraries that contain pretty much all symbols used for math, including ways to write sums and limits. the coded text is converted into a pdf doc-ment for viewing. the name can be distinguished from the rubber latex by capitalization of the l, t and x in the word.
after proving the fundamental theorem of calculus, i typed up the proof using latex so it would look nice.
pr-nounced extremely unintuitively as “luh-tek”

a horrible/awesome doc-ment markup language. you can make your scientific doc-ments and mathematical proofs look flawless at the small cost of several tedious hours per page (no exaggeration.) this time is usually spent googling how to do simple things like align text or figures. often, the exact same problem has been posted in forums by equally frustrated individuals across the globe who also can’t seem to figure out what should be intuitive but instead involves including some random package in your doc-ment’s preamble. the problem with latex is that the result is so great that once you start to use it and decide it is totally not worth the time, it’s too late and you are in love with the pretty equations it can make and it devours your time (because you had lots of free time as a physics/engineering/grad student?) now you can stay late at night in your office to work on papers and proofs. however you will likely get frustrated and distract yourself from preparing said doc-ments, and end up browsing sites like the chive and writing lengthy urban dictionary definitions…. oh wait.
a:hey man, do you want to do fun social things with our social group tonight?

b:no i’m good. i have another paragraph to format in latex, which will take me the next 6 hours or so.

c: ??