On Mon, 2016-01-25 at 13:52 +1030, Tim wrote: > Just for curiosity's sake, is academias prolific use of it because > its > ingrained into them, or does it really outclass the alternatives? > > I know that in general use, I find Word horrendous. But I've never > tried formulae in it, etc., nor used any word processor as a > precision > page layout engine, either. Yes, it really outclasses the alternatives. When it comes to typesetting complex equations, it really has no competition. No doubt Word can be tortured into producing equation output (I know it has some maths setting capability) but the huge advantage of TeX/LaTeX is that it's *not* a word processor, it's a document description language and typesetter. There are plenty of examples on the Web so I won't repeat them here, but as someone who worked on an early typesetting system for Cambridge University Press (way back in the 70's) I know how horrendous maths copy can be and how well TeX handles it. poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
