is completely suboptimal for creating long structured documents I actually saw many science students work very well with MS Word. They knew how to use it and l

is completely suboptimal for creating long structured documents I actually saw many science students work very well with MS Word. They knew how to use it and liked it, whereas I completely despised it as I was never able to fit an image properly for example. To me, LaTeX seemed completely logical and superior to MS Word, but I have seen long documents typeset using Word also. The people who liked MS Word had no programming knowledge, if that's an indicator ;)