> There are a real reasons academics and quasi-academics (aka me) use LaTeX instead of something like libreoffice. I can attest to that from first-hand experie

> There are a real reasons academics and quasi-academics (aka me) use LaTeX instead of something like libreoffice. I can attest to that from first-hand experience. Having done a thesis in LibreOffice once, I wouldn't want to repeat the experience. That's not an absolute negative against LibreOffice, though. I still use it often and like doing so. But a large document with many illustrations, many text-internal references, code and a non-trivial bibliography? Never again.