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I wonder about that. I don't know word well enough at all to accomplish the same things I do in latex. But I know it can do a lot of those things. I assume it
by ketzu 6y ago
I wonder about that. I don't know word well enough at all to accomplish the same things I do in latex. But I know it can do a lot of those things.
I assume it would be similar if I knew as much about word as I do about latex. But there's no way of knowing, as I am not going to learn word without a much better reason than "i wonder if it's actually terrible to write 150 pages when you know how to use it."
- bobbylarrybobby 6y agoWhile Word has evolved to do many of the things that were exclusive to LaTeX at one point, the problem is that Word is not extensible. When you hit a wall in Word, that’s it — you have no options. In LaTeX you can pretty much always figure out how to do what you want to do, even if it takes learning a fair bit about the packages, and if you don’t want to spend that kind of time you can almost always find relevant info on stackoverflow.
- lostmsu 6y agoEither that changed, or you are technically incorrect. Word is heavily extensible through OLE. You can probably even embed a live ConvNet or a 3D physical simulation in a document. Hell, that was mentioned in Windows 95 book I read as a kid. They used to call it "multimedia".