Post #3073429
2025-03-10 14:47 UTC
@henryseg@mathstodon.xyz (apologies for the strong opinions!)
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@jayalane@mastodon.online 2025-03-10 16:04
@yaxu@post.lurk.org @henryseg@mathstodon.xyz the chief virtue of LaTeX is that it is portable across time. In forty years it will still be a known format. Papers from 1985 in LaTex are still easy to read and edit; traffic/eqn, PageMaker, word 1.0, etc. or so on are not, in general.