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That section is not relevant for this workshop because Latex is not commonly used by social scientists.
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The workflow in this section describes three repository locations - a server, a
work computer, and a home (laptop) computer. The server will host the "base"
repository, and the server can live anywhere you have a connection to. For
example, you could use your GitHub repository (described in the [Github and
Remote Version Control](../git-and-github/Readme.md) section) as the server. If
example, you could use your GitHub repository (described in the
[Make Changes from Anywhere (GitHub)](../github/Readme.md) section) as the server. If
you have access to a server on campus (e.g., server.uni.edu), you can host your
repository there (and it's private!).

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starting out, though, so just play around and get used to the general work flow
for now. You'll get better at it over time.

#### Aside: Latex and the Limits of the Version Control Workflow

Have you ever struggled with formatting Word's equations, chapters,
bibliography, etc.? [Latex](http://www.latex-project.org/) works wonders with
that. Here's a great graph taken from Marko Pinteric's
[website](http://www.pinteric.com/miktex.html) that explains the difference.

![wordvlatex](https://raw.github.com/gidden/boot-camps/mobility/version-control/git/mobility/wordvslatex.gif "Word vs. Latex")

With the advent of Google Drive, it's often as easy to use that tool if a
document is simple enough, i.e., on the left side of the curve (where Word is
easier than Latex). Note that Google Docs is version controlled as well.

Furthermore, simply **imagine** having to write something as complicated as a
prelim or thesis using Word. You'd spend as much time formatting the thing as
you do actually writing the content. In other words, it's worth the (smallish)
headache of getting used to Latex in order to use it for bigger
documents. There's even a [Wisconsin Thesis
Template](https://github.com/willb/wi-thesis-template)! That's right, you'd have
to do **0** work to correctly format your thesis.

Finally, and this is pure aesthetics, Latex looks **good**. Have you ever read a
paper and thought "wow, those equations look great"? It's likely written in
Latex. Plus, once you write your first paper, you have all the infrastructure to
write the next one. You can literally copy the files into a different directory
and rewrite content. Super simple.

Latex works great with the workflow described here because it's text-based. You
are literally altering text files, so there's **nothing else** going on behind
the scenes. Word files, etc., have lot's going on under the hood, and so are
poor candidates for version control.

#### Aside: Setting Up a "Base" Repository

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