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Re:Word Processors: Stupid and Inefficient by delayclose on Monday November 30, 2009 @07:49PM (#969025)
"Instead of wading through menus and searching for a picture of an A with an umlaut, I can just type H\"{a}agen-Dazs directly."

I just press the ä key.

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Re:Word Processors: Stupid and Inefficient by gnosis on Monday November 30, 2009 @08:57PM (#969092)
You can do that with LaTeX too. It will take a bit of configuration first, but once you've got it configured you can type Unicode characters in to your source and have them interpreted as LaTeX commands.
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