Word processors are ditching equation editors in favour of LaTeX

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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