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Re:Word processors are ditching equation editors in favour o... by zzleeper on Saturday June 15, 2019 @10:21PM (#20193460)
I'm really surprised not enough people are making this point.

So bug prone, so many fragile packages, so many weird incantations that must be done if you ever want any flexibility... it absolutely sucks, but then I use it again and again.

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Re:Word processors are ditching equation editors in favour o... by garmaine on Sunday June 16, 2019 @12:11AM (#20193803)
PDF document typesetting is the poster child of unsexy software to work on. Everybody wants a replacement but nobody wants to write one.
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