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MS Word 2010 Takes On TeX

Posted by timothy on from the math-journals-won't-be-switching-anytime-soon dept.

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?"

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  1. Re:Academic does not necessarily mean Computer Sci by profplump · · Score: 0, Redundant

    First, I don't see why anyone with a text editor couldn't open a LaTeX file and make edit. Sure, you need some training to be proficient, but if you just want to add a note or make some corrections anyone should be able to figure it out.

    Second, who makes their PDFs unmodifiable? The fact that people choose Adobe Acrobat Reader doesn't support editing does not mean it can't be done -- annotations are a great way to get feedback on papers and a largely analogous to the sort of editing/commenting that people would be able to do with a paper copy of the document.