Also, can you imagine trying to compile a journal made up of papers from like 50 different people if they all submitted their work in Word? That would be a nightmare. (Though I'm told Word has gotten better about this.) References to page numbers, equation numbers, etc are much easier in LaTeX. If I want to change the look of all section titles in the paper I can do it in one place in LaTeX whereas in Word I might have to go change them all individually. I am able to write extremely long things in LaTeX and know that paragraphs are always formatted the same, section titles are always the same, equations always look the same, and etc. When I'm typing something for math, consistency is the most important visual aspect and LaTeX does that better than WYSIWYG editors like Word. I'll throw in two things that I haven't seen yet. I get some of the appeal of Latex (free, simple text save file, cross-OS, industry standard), but I can't see any advantage of Latex for my own uses. #Texmacs mathematica plugin codeI've tried Latex and it seems to need the exact same number of keystrokes as Word plus a bunch of code plus a bunch of libraries at the start. That's exactly the same in Word, though? Alt+= to bring up the equation editor, realtime WYSIWYG, etc. You start to memorize the commands you use frequently, though most are straightforward, so you quickly get the result you want and just keep on typing. In LaTeX you can typeset equations without taking your hands off the keyboard. Also, try to imagine doing that back when Word didn't have a built in equation editor and you had to get a separate one, or get a plugin to do it. Now imagine doing that hundreds of times. using summation symbols, or product symbols, or integrals, with fractions and lots of special symbols, using Words equation editor. Typeset a single, somewhat complex equation, i.e.
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