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WYSIWYG editors are not an example of intuitiveness either, most people don't get the concept of Style in MS Word like editors. For that, I find the hierarchy
by kalessin 16y ago
WYSIWYG editors are not an example of intuitiveness either, most people don't get the concept of Style in MS Word like editors.
For that, I find the hierarchy macros of Latex much simpler to apprehend as well as lot of goodies: footnotes, references, hyperref, mathematic mode, bibliography management…
Also, and it's blocker for lot of my use cases, Latex is version control friendly. The WYSIWYG editors are not.
Changing fonts may become a PITA and I recommend to use the koma-script classes for that (btw, the whole system of packages and the build system are a mess), but at least people can't use Comic Sans.
- Derbasti 16y agoIf only people would know how to use styles! This is probably the most important thing to know about word processors. Styles make documents consistent and beautiful. Most word processors these days ship with really beautiful and professional styles (not OOo, though). Maybe not as beautiful as TeX, but easily good enough for most applications. But people don't know about styles, and their documents are ugly.