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MS Word 2010 Takes On TeX
alphabetsoup writes "Office 2010 Technology preview was leaked a few days back. With its leak, a feature which was rumored to be present can now be confirmed. Office 2010 finally adds support for Advanced Typographic features (ligatures, number forms, alternates, etc.) of OpenType, allowing one to create documents so far possible only in TeX or InDesign. Between this, the new equation editor and styles, what are the chances of Word replacing LaTeX as the editor of choice in academia?"
And does it run on *nix?
No? Then it's still useless to me.
Aaaand I screw up the <p> tag. Go me!
"You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time."
Trying to pound the square peg of MS Word into the round hole LaTeX fills is most likely impossible.
Did this sound naughty to anyone else?
.there is enough of everything for everyone.
To the hardcore CS, math, and physics folks, those other areas are not academia. They're pop culture.
What do you mean both packages? Both hyperref and hyperref? I only mentioned one package, or are you using RIAA maths, where a package that does two things counts as two packages?
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That only means you aren't using a big enough sledgehammer. Trust me, with enough force any peg can get into any hole.
The state of the hole afterwords is a problem for the end user.
What's a scientest?
A scientest is someone who works in a scients departmint, duh.
Shop as usual. And avoid panic buying.
I have several really good "patentapplication.sty" and "litigationpleading.sty" files.
The bad news is that I used them to patent "A method for generating really good .sty files".
The good news is that no sane court would ever find the patents valid.
The bad news is that I am posting from East Texas.
The good news is that you'll be receiving some very nicely formatted letters in the mail.
The bad news... I could keep this up all day.
The good news is I won't.