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I have spent countless hours fiddling with both LaTeX and Word trying to get them to do what I want. The difference between the two is, once I had figured out
by krupan 9y ago
I have spent countless hours fiddling with both LaTeX and Word trying to get them to do what I want. The difference between the two is, once I had figured out how to make LaTeX do what I want, the steps were all documented and reproducible. With Word I had no such record of all the menu items, settings, and button clicks that had given me what I wanted.
- swiley 9y agoThis right here! This is why I generally prefer tools with a textual config/markup/command language to tools with a GUI.
- geezerjay 9y ago> The difference between the two is, once I had figured out how to make LaTeX do what I want, the steps were all documented and reproducible. I would add that once anyone figures out what they want LaTeX to do, they can simply create their custom document class and use it transparently anywhere they want, and share it with the world.