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Re:The LaTeX fetish (2016) by srtjstjsj on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @09:59AM (#18865114)
There was a civilized time when universities hired typesetters to do this job properly.
Re:The LaTeX fetish (2016) by callalex on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @11:22AM (#18865933)
There was also a time when we paid people to operate an elevator. Then we improved the technology enough to make it simple enough for everyone to do it themselves. It has many benefits, and have the user more control over what they got and when they could do things.
Re:The LaTeX fetish (2016) by zrobotics on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @01:06PM (#18867032)
I don't know about you, but I really appreciate being able to instantly get the results of a calculation rather than having to submit it to be worked out by a human calculator.