> like using latex for academic papers Have you, like, tried to write an academic paper without LaTeX? It’s only in the past few years that viable alternatives

> like using latex for academic papers Have you, like, tried to write an academic paper without LaTeX? It’s only in the past few years that viable alternatives (Sile, Typst) have been available, and they all owe a lot of their design to LaTeX. LaTeX made quality typesetting readily available to non-typographers. It’s the opposite of gatekeeping.