I keep on hearing about the superior aesthetics of LaTex versus MS Word/WYSIWYG. The principle difference seems to be that WSIWYG allows sloppy organization while LaTex has fairly rigid templates which forces you to structure your thoughts for readability and useability. It would be helpful to see PDF output comparing the appearance of the the two different approaches. One comparison could be to take identical raw text and numerical data of an academic nature and give it to an MS Word academic document expert and also to a LaTex academic document expert and see which output is superior. Can't seem to find any examples in Google. Has anyone done this yet?
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I keep on hearing about the superior aesthetics of LaTex versus MS Word/WYSIWYG. The principle difference seems to be that WSIWYG allows sloppy organization while LaTex has fairly rigid templates which forces you to structure your thoughts for readability and useability. It would be helpful to see PDF output comparing the appearance of the the two different approaches. One comparison could be to take identical raw text and numerical data of an academic nature and give it to an MS Word academic document expert and also to a LaTex academic document expert and see which output is superior. Can't seem to find any examples in Google. Has anyone done this yet?