Allegedly, on or about 25 January 2016, Patrick O'Callaghan sent:
It's the main Linux implementation of TeX. If that doesn't
ring a bell
then clearly you've not had a lot of contact with academic publishing,
especially in Maths, Physics or CS, since probably 99% of researchers
in those fields write their papers in TeX or its cousin LaTeX. Calling
it a "word processor" is like calling Mozart a songwriter :-)
Just for curiosity's sake, is academias prolific use of it because its
ingrained into them, or does it really outclass the alternatives?
I know that in general use, I find Word horrendous. But I've never
tried formulae in it, etc., nor used any word processor as a precision
page layout engine, either.
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