LaTeX was part of a class I had to take in my freshman year of college. This makes me feel even older than usual. See, it was a little different back then. You

LaTeX was part of a class I had to take in my freshman year of college. This makes me feel even older than usual. See, it was a little different back then. You didn't run LaTeX and immediately look at the output in Ghostview or some other tool to see how it looked. I had to submit a batch job then wait up to 15 minutes for an operator to pull my print job off the big Xerox laser printer so I could see what it looked like. I didn't have a lot of options to compare it to at the time. MacWrite and Microsoft Word for the Mac were the only WYSIWYG word processors available to me and those took fighting for time on a rare Mac in a campus lab. I'm glad things changed by the time I got to grad school.