There's a lot more to LaTeX than just equations though. There are packages for handling lots of things the humanities need too. Egyptian Hieroglyphs? Use HieroT

There's a lot more to LaTeX than just equations though. There are packages for handling lots of things the humanities need too. Egyptian Hieroglyphs? Use HieroTeX. Music? Use Musixtex. Really, think of anything that would be hard to typeset manually and somebody's likely to have already created a LaTeX package for it.