I think many a scientific journal requires LaTeX for submissions since it allows them to simply apply their own style to it (some will even provide their templa

I think many a scientific journal requires LaTeX for submissions since it allows them to simply apply their own style to it (some will even provide their templates). I always felt like failing to move to LaTeX from my own set of macros in Plain TeX mostly because I had my own stuff for ToC generation, code snippet syntax highlighting and cross-page continuation, and image embedding that I felt lazy to learn LaTeX.