Saturday, February 2, 2008

LaTeX in a WYSIWYG World

Most of the non-mathematically-inclined people I know don't use LaTeX and probably never would even if paid. I've even had people say with the advent of point-and-click formula editors for MS Word, there's no point in bothering with it anymore anyway.

Yet I can't shake the sneaking suspicion LaTeX is still better. Maybe it's just elitism from knowing a system most would find esoteric at best and downright weird at worst (outside of mathematics and related fields, of course).

But I still snicker at the thought of sending my humanities profs .tex files when asking them to review a draft of a paper, or using beamer to give a presentation.

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