Bernstein's post is more a criticism of Lamport's claim[1] that > Even using LaTeX, which does not make the final formatting very easy, I usually spend less th

Bernstein's post is more a criticism of Lamport's claim[1] that > Even using LaTeX, which does not make the final formatting very easy, I usually spend less than two minutes per page doing the final formatting to produce camera-ready output and less a criticism regarding the superiority of logical (i.e. semantic) document editing systems over visual (WYSIWYG) editors. Lamport even says[2] > I know of no purely logical system that is currently available. Systems like Scribe and LaTeX permit the user to describe the visual appearance as well as the logical structure of the document—for example, by inserting a command to add a quarter-inch vertical space. The need to provide the user with such commands is a symptom of the deficiencies of these systems. [1] Leslie Lamport, "Document Production: Visual or Logical?", page 6, https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2016/12/Document-Production.pdf https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2016/1... [2] supra, page 2