[jwr]

I think you hit a local extremum, so yes, I'd advise you to stay there :-)

The day will come when you will need those two figures side-by-side, together with a caption positioned just right. Or a table that spans multiple pages and has multi-column cells. Or, heaven forbid, you will need to submit your bibliography in a byzantine format invented by someone with nothing better to do ("we take pride in the fact that we place a period after author's names").

LaTeX also has another problem: even if you know it, getting from a document.tex file with 0 bytes to a document that looks good takes much longer than it should. By "looks good" I mean doesn't use Computer Modern, and overall doesn't look like a thesis from the 70s.

[freyrs3]

If you don't like Computer Modern it's only a \fontstyle{times} change away. It's humerus that you claim Latex doesn't look good as it's beautiful output is the reason many people put up with it's warts.

[welterde]

> The day will come when you will need those two figures side-by-side, together with a caption positioned just right. Or a table that spans multiple pages and has multi-column cells.

Not sure if you mean to say it is difficult to do or not in LaTeX.. but I had to do just that last week (10+ pages long tables, side by side figures with fancy captions, etc.).. and it was just a matter of searching for "LaTeX $problem" and I was in business..