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Re:Ask HN: Did anyone write a book in Nano? by etrautmann on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @01:59PM (#36959778)
Oof wow definitely not. The magic of latex is in the automatic figure numbering, captions, table of contents etc. For a thesis length document, it’s crazy to me to imagine doing that in word.

That being said, I had some typos in my thesis without an auto spell check, which I was surprised to discover later.

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Re:Ask HN: Did anyone write a book in Nano? by Jtsummers on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @02:24PM (#36960201)
Word will manage your TOC and numbering easily and automatically. I still prefer TeX/LaTeX for longer documents, but it only takes a few minutes to get Word setup correctly for managing a thesis length or longer text.
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Re:Ask HN: Did anyone write a book in Nano? by doublepg23 on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @02:35PM (#36960366)
Yeah my understanding is most publishing houses will only accept DOCX with few exceptions.
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