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You're two links away from the answer, person that obviously wants to have a good faith conversation.

• cup-of-tea 9y ago
  It took me a while to figure out what you meant. I've never looked at people's profiles on here before. I couldn't imagine writing my thesis in anything but LaTeX. Or rather, anything that didn't support both high-quality typesetting and programming. I had little programs written in my .tex files which would generate some of the tables and figures. TikZ is wonderful. I aimed for nothing less than TAoCP level of quality.
  • norswap 9y ago
    The output of Tex is superior to anything else. I doesn't change the fact that the user experience is awful. But if you want Tex quality with less head-bashing, Context is much better than Latex. It's what I use for my thesis, but not for my papers -- templates are all Latex, and I didn't know about it at the time. Also I disagree with your basic point: hours of my time are worth much more than some fancy ligatures and fluff that makes the text look very marginally better.