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[Ranjan Maitra]

On Mon, 25 Jan 2016 13:52:05 +1030 Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:

> Allegedly, on or about 25 January 2016, Patrick O'Callaghan sent:
> > It's the main Linux implementation of TeX. If that doesn't ring a bell
> > then clearly you've not had a lot of contact with academic publishing,
> > especially in Maths, Physics or CS, since probably 99% of researchers
> > in those fields write their papers in TeX or its cousin LaTeX. Calling
> > it a "word processor" is like calling Mozart a songwriter :-) 
> 
> Just for curiosity's sake, is academias prolific use of it because its
> ingrained into them, or does it really outclass the alternatives?

It is not engrained in academia in general, but predominant in things that need complicated outlets and equations.

> 
> I know that in general use, I find Word horrendous.  But I've never
> tried formulae in it, etc., nor used any word processor as a precision
> page layout engine, either.

Try out both and see the difference!

Ranjan



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