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by WillAdams 53 days ago
Yeah, I referenced this fact in a joke ages ago:

https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/121652/31151

(context is, working in book composition is like to being a ``galley slave'')

>using LaTeX, an oar is provided and there're lots of nifty customizations and improvements already available, and one can impress additional oars from CTAN, however on a semi-random basis, adding one oar will break other oars, sometimes leaving one adrift or run aground. One can enchant a set of oars to accomplish a given journey, easing the piloting requirement, and the navigation charts are decent and obstacles are fairly well-known.