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by klodolph 1184 days ago
Why do you say that LaTeX is gatekeeping? My experience is that it’s easy to get LaTeX help, and most people don’t care if you write your paper in Word.

A big chunk of academic papers are done in Word, even in mathematics.

I think a DSL really makes sense here, because that’s what you spend half of your time dealing with—the syntax—so there is a lot of room to make it easier.