LaTeXteada Project: Saying Goodbye
Tags: latex
Published: 2022-01-01 15:38:47

Hello, how are you? 

I this post I tell you the story behind this project, why did I decide to start this and what is going to be the future of this blog

## The story behind this blog

The first time that I heard about `LaTeX` was in the high school, one professor told us about this, and it was interesting for me, however, I did not researched about the topic, because my math stuff was in paper. 
It was until the 2nd semester of the university where I decided to start doing my Physics Lab's reports in `LaTeX`. At the beginning it is painful, because, I was spending more time searching *how to do ...* than the time doing the reports, and yes, at the beginning `LaTeX` is hard, because it is a complete new environment, you need to learn commands, expressions, etc. 

However I was grasping how to become more fluent, some patterns, instructions, but I just was searching on YouTube and in some other blogs, I never opened a book about `LaTex`or took a *formal* course. 

It was like 1 year later when I decided to open my first book about `LaTeX`, it was good, because I was learning those *little details* which make you say *Ohh I finally understand* and I noticed that reading books was a good idea. 

When I attend my first course, I notice that I was already familiar with the 98% of the course, nothing special was happening with the courses, the only thing that changed was that there was a video, so I forget the courses and focused myself in the books, and I keep learning with books 

## Why did I decide to start this blog 

As I told you, I love learning from books, but I was noticing some pattern: 

> The information in the book *A* was almost the same as the information of the book *B*

And it was logical, because the commands and instructions are the same, so, I decided to read one book first, write a synopsis and then start another book and just write down the information that was different from the first book, so, I read 10 pages of the book, but I only was writing 5 lines

So today, but one year ago I was thinking: 

> I need to share this information with the people outside

Because many information of the books lives there, in the books, and nowhere else, I decided to open my account on Twitter (to publish and have a bigger audience) and here in `dev.to` to write the blog.

What about the language? Well I decided to write this blog on English because I wanted to be practicing my writing skills, and, at a certain point, to reach more people, to have a bigger audience, and I learned something 

> You can not master something until you understand what you are doing 

In the first post I was just throwing content, until I decided to analyze what I was doing and how i needed to do that, I gave to the blog more structure, and fragmented it into sections

## The future of this blog 

The first thing that I need to say is 

> I won't delete this blog

This blog is going to be open forever, the only thing that is going to change is that I won't publish anything else here, 

***This is my last post here***

`LaTeX` is a huge world, giant. You can do all kind of stuff here, but I just wanted to talk about the common things in all the documents:

Equations, tables, figures, personalize the sheet and macros 

And I reached that goal, and I am happy for that, because I did it in one year, but something else, I was not planning what to publish, there was not a list of *What is next* the order of this blog is just based on my experience 

## Saying Goodbye

I want to thank to all that people who choose to open my blog when they search something related with `LaTeX`, to the people and organizations on Twitter which press the *retweet* and *like* button, to the people who followed me, to OM, JR, and CT who supported me to create and keep going with this blog and told me not to quit.

I want to keep growing in this `LaTeX` world, and, in the future do some contributions or create something for this amazing project.

This is all for today, and forever

Do not forget to follow me on Twitter `@latexteada`

Greetings from Mexico, see you :D