Reasons to use LaTeX
I occasionally come across pages like “The Beauty of LaTeX” or other tutorial and article that evangelizes the semantic, archival, aesthetic, and typographical value of LaTeX. Whenever I do, I’m reminded of this reason I once heard from a graduate student:
My advisor really likes to crushingly edit my work; no phrase goes untouched. So when I wrote my thesis, I did it in LaTeX, and since there isn’t a “Track Changes” like in Microsoft Word, he has to edit it by hand, on paper. Suddenly, only really relevant suggestions and edits were given back to me.
(Of course, LaTeX does have a sort of “track changes” type package, but it’s not quite as easy to use as MS Word, and requires knowledge of LaTeX.)
