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hi, great point. It is true that at the moment our userbase is mostly physicists/astrophysicists and computer scientists who heavily use LaTeX. But we are not s
by apepe 13y ago
hi, great point. It is true that at the moment our userbase is mostly physicists/astrophysicists and computer scientists who heavily use LaTeX. But we are not super committed to LaTeX. (In fact, I am annoyed by LaTeX as much as the next guy.) We already fully support Markdown and soon AsciiDoc and MediaWiki. An HTML5 wysiwyg is coming soon as well.
You are wrong, however, when you say that for academic publications almost no one uses MS Word. In fact, only 5% of academic submissions (in all academic journals) are received in LaTeX. 95% is Word.
- stared 13y agoWrt LaTeX - I converted a few people (including one assistant professor in psychology) from Word to LaTeX. And a lot more use tools like LyX to have LaTeX where it shines (formulas, bibliography, typesetting of output) but without the typical overhead. And I am a firm believer that with so many plug-and-play LaTeX (Authorea, WriteLaTeX, ShareLaTeX and a few others) much more people will use LaTeX (or at least - its good parts), as the entry barrier went practically down to zero. (As a side note - from user's perspective, $\formula$ and $$\formula$$ are much easier to see than \(\formula\) and \[\formula\]. I know that in the second case, the later is more correct, but Markdown _is_ about clarity, not purity of syntax.)