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Over the weekend a minor smack-talk session opened up on Twitter between Maria Andersen and about half a dozen other math people about MathType versus $latex \LaTeX ...

But $latex \LaTeX$ gets a bad rap as too complicated for normal people to use. It seems to be something people learn only in graduate school, with few undergraduates -- and even fewer high school ...

LaTeX or Word? For physicists and mathematicians, the choice is obvious. But for scientists in other fields the merits of LaTeX have largely gone unnoticed. The open-source software system — used to ...