People use LaTeX because they have to write equations —besides referencing and quoting them, such a pleasure without it— and the alternatives suck. If the autho

People use LaTeX because they have to write equations —besides referencing and quoting them, such a pleasure without it— and the alternatives suck. If the author of this obtuse rant doesn't need equations in print and to begin with hasn't bothered to ask anybody about their reasons for using it before making assumptions, I don't understand what's interesting about his personal views on something he can't get. Too bad, because making references/bibliographies in LaTeX also sucks less than the alternatives. Yeah, it's not WYSIWYG, if you need WYSIWYG use something else. I hate clicking for hours in WYSIWYG equation editors, I can say that because I've had to do it too many times and it's soul-crushing. BTW, your old Equation Editor objects can't be opened anymore using supported Microsoft products. There are millions or hundreds of millions of those out there but they couldn't care. This might teach us something etc. There's also a fish story about the reasons for arXiv requiring LaTeX back then: besides looking nice it really is a crackpot filter.