In LaTeX you'll spend your time learning how to get it to do the right thing. In Word, you'll spend your time coercing word to do what you want. The differenc

In LaTeX you'll spend your time learning how to get it to do the right thing. In Word, you'll spend your time coercing word to do what you want. The difference: you learn, Word doesn't. Oh, and Word doesn't do emacs keybindings, which is ridiculous. LaTeX you can just edit in emacs, which is wonderful.