Scientists: “God, LaTeX is a fucking nightmare. I hate it.”
Laypeople: “Why don’t you use Microsoft Word instead?”
Scientists: “Are you high?!”
Laypeople: “Why don’t you use Microsoft Word instead?”
Scientists: “Are you high?!”
fwiw, I used #DocBook #SGML in #Emacs to generate LaTeX/LilyPond, even when Macmillan demanded I submit MSWord¹ docs, I'd just emit them as an output! Mind you, that was last century, but I'd still do it that way today, if I had to.
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¹ I call those apps "font painters', or WYSIAYG (what you see is ALL you get
I did manage to successfully apply LaTeX in WordPress via emacs to include math and music, although there were weird edges that, on my way to solving, somehow I broke the whole thing 😕
Back in the days of fax, I used metafont to create proper 98x100 dpi fonts that had recipients commenting on how clear and crisp my text came out. Sadly lost that font in a disc crash.
So yeah, be worried 😅