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That's definitely not the case in computer science and electrical engineering at least. LaTeX definitely isn't great, but I don't see a viable alternative.
by Cyph0n 10y ago
That's definitely not the case in computer science and electrical engineering at least. LaTeX definitely isn't great, but I don't see a viable alternative.
- privong 10y ago> That's definitely not the case in computer science and electrical engineering at least. Same for astronomy/astrophysics. Most of the publications are typeset in LaTeX.
- opieters 10y agoIndeed, lots of people I know (mainly computer science, electrical engineering and physics) still heavily rely on it for long documents and papers.
- DonaldFisk 10y agoIn the 1990s I used FrameMaker. It's still around, now owned by Adobe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_FrameMaker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_FrameMaker
- washadjeffmad 10y agoThere's always InDesign, but given its time to proficiency, I think the bast case for similar purposes might still be something creating LaTeX/DocBooks source that ports well to InDesign.
- whorleater 10y agoCan't diff a indesign file, whereas latex is easy to diff.