> the people using LaTeX (in many cases academics, not script kiddies) should know better. Dunno about that, I've worked with both commercial research code (wh

> the people using LaTeX (in many cases academics, not script kiddies) should know better. Dunno about that, I've worked with both commercial research code (which has developed a second life as a mission critical commercial project) and academic research code. It's almost all absolutely dreadful for generally good reasons. I'm writing up my PhD at the moment. I was going to finish it in markdown and then move it over to msword with pandoc. A couple of days of messing around with xrefs and such like and I'm very happy to see that it's in LaTeX now, and that LaTex much to my surprise is still the best environment in which to prepare a thesis.