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TeX isn't that widely used outside of fields like physics, math or computer science. Academics in others field like using Word.
by pseud0r 9y ago
TeX isn't that widely used outside of fields like physics, math or computer science. Academics in others field like using Word.
- moxious 9y agoTeX is great for very complicated situations, which doesn't describe what most people do.
- snorremd 9y ago(La)TeX is great when you don't want to manually handle formatting your text. I loved writing LaTeX for the simple reason that I could focus on the content, rather than having to constantly work on the presentation. The markup was simple enough that it did not get in the way. Barring technical problems I much prefer LaTeX to Word or LibreOffice Writer.
- jhbadger 9y agoYes -- biology is 100% Word (some bioinformatics is done in LaTeX), and there is a whole industry of commercial products like EndNote which exist to handle citations and bibliographies in Word. Which is really weird. You'd think Microsoft would have added bibliographic management by now.