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What would be a Practical and Optimal Roadmap for a beginner to becoming an expert author or maintainer of a complex and professional LaTeX package?

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    Suggestion: 1) Master LaTeX. 2) Improve this skill by following and solving questions here. 3) Try your first package. 4) Team up with more advanced LaTeX users for your desired package. // Guessed time-horizon: certainly 2 years hands-on, at least, IF you skip #4. – MS-SPO Mar 08 '24 at 12:35
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    IMHO, the path to becoming an expert is actually always the same, regardless of the specialist area: Read, read, read, experiment, read, read, read, ask questions, read, read, read and then do it all over again and again and … – cabohah Mar 08 '24 at 12:57
  • @cabohah your list is missing "answer questions". – Ulrike Fischer Mar 08 '24 at 13:05
  • @cabohah so egreg is no expert, he doesn't ask questions... – Skillmon Mar 08 '24 at 13:07
  • @Skillmon In our days he does not ask TeX questions. But in our days, he is already an expert, so he does not need to ask questions any longer. If he has become an expert without ever asking a question, he would simply be the exception that proves the rule. But presumably he at least asked himself questions. I do it all the time - for example: Why do I write so much nonsense? – cabohah Mar 08 '24 at 13:10
  • @UlrikeFischer This is part of "experiment" and the dots. – cabohah Mar 08 '24 at 13:15
  • @cabohah another way https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/5713/963 – yannisl Mar 08 '24 at 14:50
  • @cabohah sorry, I thought it was obvious that this was a joke. – Skillmon Mar 08 '24 at 21:19
  • @Skillmon Sorry, I'm a Postillon reader. – cabohah Mar 09 '24 at 09:34

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