Ugh ugh ugh no. Storytime. A couple years ago, I was in the midst of copyedits on a book with a bunch of math in it. The copyeditors were using a different v

Ugh ugh ugh no. Storytime. A couple years ago, I was in the midst of copyedits on a book with a bunch of math in it. The copyeditors were using a different version of Word. When they sent the edits back to me, the math was gone. Completely. Not only that, but when I tried to copy-paste the math in from a prior draft, the Word file refused to save. Eventually, I had to reconstruct every one of the damn things, by hand. (Happy consequence: I caught and corrected an error doing so. But still!) That would never happen in a plain text format. And this was the experience that made me abandon word processors for good.