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Is it worth to learn LaTeX or by doing so I'll just waste time I could be learning something more useful when it comes to the profession I want to pursue? I think I would get some jobs if I'd know LaTeX/R markdown + typing skills, even though I wanna be something like a pentester. What would you do?

>>9063 I wouldn't learn it for a job since 99% of the world uses Word for fuarrrking everything. I like to use LaTeX whenever I get the chance though and I use it for making my own documents.

what the fuarrrk is LaTex

If you're looking at going into academics, especially sciences and math, it is good. Some journals only accept submissions written in LaTeX, although they're disappearing. Otherwise, unless your job is tied to research in some way, it's unlikely they'll care that you know LaTeX, and will instead require you to use Word, or another word processor. That being said, writing whitepapers as a pentester isn't uncommon, and LaTeX gives you a quick way to write good quality papers and publish them. It's unlikely you'll be required to use it at a job, but having a body of work (exploit analysis, etc) published as whitepapers, instead of blogposts or whatever, may be helpful in getting a job.

If your "product" is ever a pdf. pentest report, academic report or whatever. Then you should learn latex

I've seen a few tutorials about latex. I think I have a book or two even. But is there a recommended resource to get your hands on?

>>9068 I honestly haven't seen a good single-source guide that will give you a good introduction to the language/system as a whole, like you'd expect from a book on a programming language. One might exist, but I personally haven't seen one. The wikibook is ok for getting started with the basics, in particular the pages about math are good references that I always come back to when typesetting anything math related. For anything more complex, an internet search will usually point you to a relevant TeX Stack Exchange question.

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