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?"

Comments

Re:less than low

[ilblissli]

geeks wouldn't care that it is not open source software, they'll just pirate it anyway.

Re:Biology

[giuseppemag]

There is a difference between "being *the* simplest form of functional programming" and "being *some* shitty form of imperative programming". This difference is key in understanding why people tend to do amazing things with Excel... I would recommend Excel to people who can't do programming, can't be bothered with learning but have some sort of automation needs that subtly change relatively often. Oh teh noes wait! It's all because of Micro$uckz and their evil empire!!!! All inhabitants of planet Earth have been turned into mindless idiots, and only the purest intelligence (only found here on /.) can rescue all!