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Re:Word processors are ditching equation editors in favour o... by AnimalMuppet on Saturday June 15, 2019 @04:43PM (#20192025)
Just get Lyx. It's a graphical front end for LaTeX, so you never actually write LaTeX. You don't have to worry about what's idiomatic at all, because you aren't writing it. You're just writing a document.
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Re:Word processors are ditching equation editors in favour o... by sackintor on Saturday June 15, 2019 @05:42PM (#20192344)
The best bit about LyX is using it to format LaTeX tables nicely.

When writing my thesis I used LyX but found myself creating more and more ERT (what LyX calls raw LaTeX code). I eventually just started using a text editor. However, I still do tables in LyX and copy them over -- such a pain to insert a column otherwise...

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Re:Word processors are ditching equation editors in favour o... by na85 on Saturday June 15, 2019 @05:51PM (#20192394)
That's kind of an indictment of latex in and of itself; the best way to use latex is to not use it?

At that point why not just use .docx?

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Re:Word processors are ditching equation editors in favour o... by souterrain on Saturday June 15, 2019 @06:56PM (#20192704)
Repeatability.

Complex formatting, such as figure captions and figure placement, in Word documents suddenly break for no apparent reason. Troubleshooting a “broken” Word doc is akin to fixing a typewriter while one is blindfolded.

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Re:Word processors are ditching equation editors in favour o... by sjy on Sunday June 16, 2019 @12:02AM (#20193779)
Wouldn't it be nice if Word actually provided some kind of UI for working with the underlying XML, like the old WordPerfect 'show codes' feature?
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