Word certainly has a number of powerful features, but every time I use it, I find it is really hard to have your document look consistent. In LaTeX (or Markdow

Word certainly has a number of powerful features, but every time I use it, I find it is really hard to have your document look consistent. In LaTeX (or Markdown, or some other markup), it is pretty easy to enforce common style: font name, font size, indentation, space around figures, and so on. In Word, not so much -- one bad copy-paste, and your document has a few words in unusual font, or "11.8" pt characters, or "1.17" line spacing. This is especially bad if you are working together, and some of your collaborators are using non-English language -- you see a mix of "Heading 1" and "Titre 1", each configured separately. I am pretty happy that now that I am not longer in academia, I don't need to deal with either Word or LaTeX -- it's all Markdown, JIRA's markup or, in the extreme cases, Google Docs. Still, if I had to produce a fancy looking document today, I'd probably go for LaTeX with a GUI like Lyx -- good discoverability, and pretty clean .tex files on output.