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Re:Neovim by ori_b on Friday February 21, 2014 @08:36PM (#7280607)
> I'm trash talking it because it's the most popular way of working. I don't know anyone that does not write his/her papers in LaTex.

And you never stopped to investigate why, in spite of the far greater ease of entry that alternatives have?

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Re:Neovim by yen223 on Saturday February 22, 2014 @12:27AM (#7281080)
I have a hard time believing this, to be honest. I know far, far more people who use Microsoft Word, than I do people who use (or even heard of) LaTeX.
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Re:Neovim by danieldk on Saturday February 22, 2014 @04:26AM (#7281540)
It depends on the field. The field I am working in (computational linguistics), virtually everyone uses LaTeX. And with good reason, there are great packages for typesetting stuff that is specific to our field. So, yes, at work I know far more people who use LaTeX than Word.
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Re:Neovim by mbreese on Saturday February 22, 2014 @02:07AM (#7281242)
Agreed. LaTeX is a very field specific tool. I don't know anyone that has ever used it (other than me, and I'm forced to use Word because that's what all my collaborators use).
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