> It has a lot of flexibility, but everything in LaTex requires a lot more effort to type then in something like MS Word. It's not just super-flexible in the

> It has a lot of flexibility, but everything in LaTex requires a lot more effort to type then in something like MS Word. It's not just super-flexible in the output but also in the input. It takes one short line in your preamble to define a new command or math operator, redefining long commands you use often - with parameters and/or optional parameters, if you like - to be whatever you want them to be. It sounds like you don't know that. Everything is redefinable, and it's easy enough to also make a short command name for a combination of symbols, or a new symbol, or anything you like. Commands can even draw pictures inline, e.g. with TikZ.