About

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”

Ernest Hemingway

My take is that there is everything to LaTeX: all I have to do is sit down at my computer and make the magic happen.

My name is Elio A. Farina, and I’m a LaTeX coder.

I met LaTeX in 2000, and it was love at first sight! I use LaTeX for everything in my life when I have to deal with typesetting and design, and since 2015, coding in LaTeX has been my only job. I’ve collaborated and I’m still collaborating with various individuals and organisations around the world to turn their dreams into realities. Well, at least their LaTeX dreams!

LaTeX is not just for typesetting your dissertation because your advisor said so. And for sure, it doesn’t have to be painful and you don’t need to bleed, as Hemingway suggested. It is about coding, and most of my jobs involve drawing images using TikZ, creative problem solving and LaTeX integration with several other programming experiences. And macro naming. Most of my energy goes into naming.

Beyond client work, I use TikZ as a creative medium — Moiré patterns, visual experiments, and an ongoing dream of making a full cartoon entirely in TikZ. You can peek at these projects in the Lab.

If you want to see how I actually think about LaTeX source, the rules I write by are in the Credo.

If you need LaTeX help for whatever your reasons are, I’m here for you!

“Elio is a LaTeX wiz”

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