I would think the claims to fame here are: widely adopted, and still better typographical rendering than most of its concurrence. Also, macros are what enabled the numerous packages, how is this bad?
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Don't get me wrong, there is no competition. But "I fixed a typo on page 300 and now the break between pages 1 & 2 changed" is nothing but an anti-feature.
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Re: macros, it's a matter of mixing code and content. Like font & script tags in html vs css.
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Agreed. Would be cleaner with 2 distinct languages (one for generating content programmatically; one for specifying layout/appearance). But we have to live with what exists…
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In theory one could write in using something like org-mode or markdown, exporting to [La]TeX (via pandoc or whatever) to partially side-step some of these issues; in practice I've found for most purposes (i.e. anything non-trivial) writing directly in LaTeX is preferable.
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