> Except that's what word is -- four decades of tooling development and refinement Right. That's my point. People don't tend to write doc files by hand they us

> Except that's what word is -- four decades of tooling development and refinement Right. That's my point. People don't tend to write doc files by hand they use tools (word processors) to write them automatically. There are tools (with decades of refinement behind them) for building LaTeX documents automatically. The average is brought down on the LaTeX side, because not everyone uses those tools. If you exclude the people who write LaTeX documents by hand (as it is reasonable to exclude people who write doc files by hand) it's probably a much less significant difference.