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> Thank goodness MS can't create a proper equation editor to save their life, so LaTeX is still the standard for higher-level academia. Higher-level academia i
by beefhash 7y ago
> Thank goodness MS can't create a proper equation editor to save their life, so LaTeX is still the standard for higher-level academia.
Higher-level academia in STEM. Other fields are likely quite much sold on Word. I can imagine that, say, law is chock-full of people using Word.
- tombert 7y agoYeah, I realized that about ten seconds after I submitted; my mom is a lawyer and due to older standards and newer ones, they use Word for about 80% of stuff, and Wordperfect for about 20% (due to it being the standard in the federal courts for a long time).
- duxup 7y agoThe legal world is the land of the Luddites. There are very capable people too of course, but generally I've found that the legal world to contain a higher than average percentage of Luddites.
- tombert 7y agoI'm hesitant to call anyone a Luddite when I'm tacitly suggestion people use TeX, a piece of software made like 20 years before I was born :).
- duxup 7y agoHey nothing wrong with a tool that works.
- krferriter 7y agoWe could definitely use a replacement for LaTeX sometime soon. The syntax is pretty gross and the documents are difficult to understand. And if you move from using a single document to importing multiple distinct files into a main file it's quite difficult to find where a value or setting is coming from. I've found that most LaTeX documentation is merely contained within StackExchange answers, which are of highly variable quality, which is a pretty crappy user experience.
- tombert 7y agoHonestly, typically when I do “LaTeX” nowadays, I am really doing markdown for everything except equations, and using Pandoc to handle the conversion to something pretty. I think markdown is substantially better syntax than LaTeX.