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Word 2016 and above on Windows allow the use of LaTeX to write equations. On OS X, later versions of Pages do the same thing.
by xattt 8y ago
Word 2016 and above on Windows allow the use of LaTeX to write equations. On OS X, later versions of Pages do the same thing.
- scottlocklin 8y agoAs the proverb goes; now you have two problems. Depending on proprietary stuff which changes all the time, or even complex FOSS software with single point of failure developers (I dunno, TeXmacs or something) is a huge risk which went away when I bought a cheap Leslie Lamport book on LaTeX. Doesn't really matter if a new feature in proprietary application-X allows me to also use it with LaTeX. I can just use LaTeX! I wrote my dissertation in 2004, can still trivially use the LaTeX in it, and I sometimes do. Libreoffice, Word ... pretty sure I'd have a harder time of it. Heck Libreoffice was probably called StarOffice back then!
- zrobotics 8y agoI was forced to submit a lab report in Word. I'd tried to use the LaTeX feature, and I couldn't even get it to properly understand limits of integration. After ~5 minutes, I just gave up and used the annoying Gui interface, since at least it worked. This was last year, and I haven't tried again (since if I need to typeset math, I'll just use LaTeX). Word has its advantages, mostly ease of use, but it just can't handle math and bibliographies as easily as LaTeX.
- xattt 8y agoI haven’t actually used the LaTeX interface in Word, though I had used it in Pages on several occaisons. I was impressed and unreasonably wished that Pages was actually a full-featured, live updating LaTeX GUI editor.