I recently co-authored a book for a major tech publisher. They formatted it using -- I kid you not -- MS Word. The late stages of the editing process (where I

I recently co-authored a book for a major tech publisher. They formatted it using -- I kid you not -- MS Word. The late stages of the editing process (where I was working with the publisher's .doc files instead of just sending them text) were so painful that I vowed to learn Tex and/or LaTeX before helping my mother self-publish her upcoming quilting book.