This in the comments of the page is a good response: http://lemire.me/blog/archives/2015/01/14/knauff-and-nejasmic-recommend-banning-latex/ http://lemire.me/blo

This in the comments of the page is a good response: http://lemire.me/blog/archives/2015/01/14/knauff-and-nejasmic-recommend-banning-latex/ http://lemire.me/blog/archives/2015/01/14/knauff-and-nejasmi... Essentially, the test is too limited for its purposes. A huge advantage for LaTeX is the ability to copy and paste faithfully and modify easily. This is how novices learn. In Word, if you look at an example of something awesome, it tells you nothing on how to make it. With TeX, it is self-documenting on how to produce it and how to modify it. Also, text tools can help greatly. One can easily integrate data sources piping text into these documents, handling tabular issues. But the key is maintenance. If you need to make major changes, text documents are much easier to manage. TeX is used for documents that someone cares about, not some one-off letter to be written and forgotten. Though I would still prefer to use TeX even in that case, but I concede that that's just me.