Try writing a 50 page document with those same references, but also countless images or diagrams (and perhaps even some care taken with typesetting!). It has c

Try writing a 50 page document with those same references, but also countless images or diagrams (and perhaps even some care taken with typesetting!). It has certainly been the case even in the past year or two that the happless art history major with a senior thesis project due soon, but whose machine doesn't have the resources to handle the document or have to deal with unexpected changes in formatting because they switched which printer they'll be printing to! obvious they should be using latex over word :p, but the point is that theres a tradeoff on where the abstractions are and who has to deal with them. Seriously though, anyone on HN who regularly writes large documents and cares about their formatting etc being nice, should have a go at latex! :)