Re:The LaTeX fetish (2016)
by megous on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @09:54AM
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On my old 486, I wrote about 80 page document about signal processing in Word, full of painstakingly created equations, until one day, all equations basically disappeared or became uneditable. I learned my lesson there about wysiwyg.
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Re:The LaTeX fetish (2016)
by ModernMech on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @09:59AM
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Things have improved since 1989. Give it a shot again, you might be surprised!
1999 and it doesn't seem like, from other answers.
The thing is that time invested in learning superior alternatives is already spent, and there's no point taking the risks just to try for no reason.
Just like I will not create another website in FrontPage.
They did completely overhaul the equation system in Office 2007 so that you edit them with unicode text instead of the proprietary OLE editor from previous versions. The document [1] describing how they use unicode characters to structure mathematical expressions is pretty interesting, even if you never touch MS Word again.
[1] https://www.unicode.org/notes/tn28/UTN28-PlainTextMath.pdf
Word also supports LaTeX for equations! https://support.office.com/en-us/article/linear-format-equat...