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Can anyone explain the downvotes? Thanks.

Gigablah 15y ago
LaTeX gets plenty of use in academic circles. Research papers, theses, etc.
dlwh 15y ago
I didn't downvote but, pretty much every academic in the CS/physics/stats/math I've met uses LaTeX. Even a bunch of linguists I know use LaTeX. It's definitely not perfect--I really wish there were something better--but for writing technical academic papers, it seems like far and away the best.
beza1e1 15y ago
You write unjustified aggressive phrases, which are clearly at odds with lots of people. That's why I consider you a troll and downvote you.
alexchamberlain 15y ago
Go and find some download stats for some LaTeX distributions. LaTeX is still used in academia everyday, and I conject that it is used to generate docs in business too. LaTeX is about as far from dead as the desktop computer.
patrickg 15y ago
Only someone not related to typesetting can say that LaTeX is dead. Exactly the opposite is true. Even though there are good alternatives these days such as InDesign and (I hate to say that:) MS Word (which now has a much better formula editor and OpenType Math fonts), great developments are taking place, for example LuaTeX. Not directly LaTeX but TeX: I have built a high quality database publishing system based on LuaTeX: http://speedata.github.com/publisher/ http://speedata.github.com/publisher/
- Luyt 15y ago
  I think that page could benefit from some examples created by speedataPublisher; now I only see a list of features and requirements, not what I'm able to create with it.
  - patrickg 15y ago
    I am working on it. Thanks for pointing it out once more!
- chalst 15y ago
  MS Word: Note that the formula editor is very carefully based on the algorithm in Tex, as MS have documented in a tech report. Hilariously, they screwed up the implementation, which does not match the specification in their tech report: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/20487/why-does-ms-words-algorithm-for-vertical-positioning-of-super-and-subscripts-n http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/20487/why-does-ms-wor...

LaTeX gets plenty of use in academic circles. Research papers, theses, etc.

dlwh 15y ago

I didn't downvote but, pretty much every academic in the CS/physics/stats/math I've met uses LaTeX. Even a bunch of linguists I know use LaTeX. It's definitely not perfect--I really wish there were something better--but for writing technical academic papers, it seems like far and away the best.

beza1e1 15y ago

You write unjustified aggressive phrases, which are clearly at odds with lots of people. That's why I consider you a troll and downvote you.

alexchamberlain 15y ago

Go and find some download stats for some LaTeX distributions. LaTeX is still used in academia everyday, and I conject that it is used to generate docs in business too. LaTeX is about as far from dead as the desktop computer.

patrickg 15y ago

Only someone not related to typesetting can say that LaTeX is dead. Exactly the opposite is true. Even though there are good alternatives these days such as InDesign and (I hate to say that:) MS Word (which now has a much better formula editor and OpenType Math fonts), great developments are taking place, for example LuaTeX. Not directly LaTeX but TeX: I have built a high quality database publishing system based on LuaTeX: http://speedata.github.com/publisher/ http://speedata.github.com/publisher/

Luyt 15y ago
I think that page could benefit from some examples created by speedataPublisher; now I only see a list of features and requirements, not what I'm able to create with it.
- patrickg 15y ago
  I am working on it. Thanks for pointing it out once more!
chalst 15y ago
MS Word: Note that the formula editor is very carefully based on the algorithm in Tex, as MS have documented in a tech report. Hilariously, they screwed up the implementation, which does not match the specification in their tech report: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/20487/why-does-ms-words-algorithm-for-vertical-positioning-of-super-and-subscripts-n http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/20487/why-does-ms-wor...