I think the point is that whatever document preparation system they choose to use, digital natives aren't magically proficient at it but have make an effort to

I think the point is that whatever document preparation system they choose to use, digital natives aren't magically proficient at it but have make an effort to learn to use it like everyone else. I think the real takeaway from today's kids being digital natives is that you no longer have to "win them over" with bloated GUI applications that are designed to emulate old-fashioned desk work with the leaky abstractions that entails. They already take for granted that computers are the future. It's a golden opportunity to embrace higher power systems systems where the formatting is all abstracted away by standardised macros and all they're left with is a lawyering DSL. Learning a text editor and a small DSL should even be easier than learning Word (or even LaTeX) in-and-out, and digital natives should be less biased against it than previous generations, having never done paper desk work before in their lives.