Wrt 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 wher

Wrt 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.)