> ConTeXt is not targeted toward authors of scientific papers

Absolutely true.

I would posit that most people writing LaTeX aren't writing up papers in it either (Most journals prefer or require Word these days).

ConText isn't just for books though..it's great for any sort of thing with formatting...like, say, a resume.

>I would posit that most people writing LaTeX aren't writing up papers in it either

what exactly do you think they're writing in it then? business cards?

as the other commenter said: publishing across math/physics/cs i have never seen a journal not prefer latex to word. and while ieee accepts word it most certainly prefers latex:

https://www.overleaf.com/org/ieee

Manuals? Resumes? Other technical documents? Books?

Huh? I know of precisely zero journals/conferences where Word is commonly used (in CS at least).

How about Nature?

https://www.nature.com/srep/author-instructions/submission-g...

"Whilst Microsoft Word is preferred we also accept LaTeX, or PDF format."

In general Word has eaten up everything that isn't hard core math.

Nope. Like I said all of CS uses LaTeX.

Not all of CS. It really depends on the sub field. But I would say most papers in CS are written in Latex though.

Yes, because one field uses it, the rest of the universe is irrelevant.

(PS: All the IEEE journals accept Word.

I think Word is more common in humanities and medical fields. In science and math, LaTeX is still the standard.

I work for a university press and virtually all of our manuscripts come in as Word docs, but most of our books are indeed in humanities, most are not esp. math intensive. BUt now even Word can handle math markup well enough for say, an economics text. We occasionally get LaTex files, and it is difficult to integrate into our design workflow, they have to be handled completely separately.

What? Most of my peers would laugh themselves silly if a journal asked for a word document.

I was doing a PhD in CS and one of the professors asked me to stop using LaTeX as it is “awful”.

That's a very rare attitude I think.

Over the last 10 years or so there has definitely been a push by journals more towards word.

I know that for some journals (osapublishing.org, which is optics so engineering/physics) this came at a time when they moved all their content to be accessible as html. I remember reading somewhere (maybe in their style guides) that they said that word allows them to extract the relevant information more easily, so I suspect that MS made some sort of publishing toolchain for this usecase and the publishers lapped it up.

I know that a significant portion of colleagues still prefer to write their documents in latex, and the journals still accept them.

“Most journals prefer word” well it depends of the field... In mine, computational math, it’s 100% latex. Of course it’s a math heavy field.

almost all papers on arXiv are done in latex, you upload the source and they compile it on their servers. that’s a lot of papers! it’s most of math, CS, and physics, and some economics.

it’s probably true that most papers aren’t written in LaTeX but I’m confident most people writing in LaTeX are writing scientific papers.

Even my undergraduate CS and EE classes expected me to turn in assignments in LaTeX. Which field are you working in?

Economics is mostly LaTeX.

Lua is orders of magnitude easier to learn than TeX. No macros, no expansion trickery and no obscure tricks to do things as complex calculations (either for typesetting or drawing).