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I see it more as a sendup of *why* some people learn LaTeX. Is it really because you need that much precision in your formatting, or is it just to fit in with that Computer Modern look so the other people in the department don't laugh at you?
Or because you just need a stable format to write in.
I learned LaTeX because MS Word's equation editor would constantly crash and lose my work, or the auto-correct would try to turn anything technical into garbled English or Cyrillic and then crash when I tried to undo that...
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Heh, that is a good point. You can guarantee a plaintext .tex file will still compile a decade or three from now, and be human-readable all the while.
I keep all my important notes in plain text for this very reason.
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I mean if you're writing a technical paper making dense and repeated use of notation, your choice is TeX or insanity
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