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by chungy 1057 days ago
The disadvantage of Word is that it has absolutely terrible output and quite a lot of use cases are hard or impossible to use in it.

Don't let the name fool you. TeXmacs won't make you write (La)TeX. You'll get tables that work, images that work, hyperlinks that work, running headers that work, math that works, kerning that words, hyphenation and justification that work. (From math forward are major failure points in Word)
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eldaisfish 1057 days ago
>The disadvantage of Word is that it has absolutely terrible output

This is a moot point if most people are reluctant to pick up latex and those who do are greeted by often unreadable, esoteric code that produces error messages such as "badness". This is the problem with latex and its derivatives, not their output.

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chungy 1057 days ago
TeXmacs isn't a derivative of LaTeX. It has an unfortunate name. It is a WYSIWYG editor that produces comparable output. It does support some subset of (La)TeX backslash commands as convenience, but requires none of them.

Basically you get all the advantages of Word, all the advantages of (La)TeX, and none of the disadvantages of either.

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