“Look, how hard could it be to just write my own typesetting code?” —everyone who has ever tried to make LaTeX do something other than the hideous default
Well, the people who use TeX use it because (1) there’s nothing else they can use and (2) they are geeks who can somehow sort of use it. An *easily* programmable typesetting system that doesn’t do math at all potentially has a much larger user base.
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Perhaps. But if THAT is what you want, why not use LyX right out the box? LyX is not a GREAT UI, but it's really not that bad. (I'd prefer to give it to a naive user rather than Word.)
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The only people who care how horrible it is to fiddle with TeX are people doing serious typesetting, which is MOSTLY math/physics/chemistry people (though you get the occasional unusual languages folks, or musicians, or chess heads and suchlike).
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