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LaTeX I suppose that everybody knows what Microsoft Word or LibreOffice is. We use those products for everyday work, especially if we are students, office workers or scientists. Reports, documents, articles and etc. When I were young student, I worked at a compilation of answers at ordinary differential equations exam. It was the tremendous Microsoft Office's document (about one hundred pages) with an unimaginable count of formulas. It hangs and crashes every hour. Today Microsoft Office is much better, than before. But in those days I thought, that I should find the alternative for writing the complicated documents, and I found it. It was LaTeX. It's difficult, it's really difficult in comparison with Microsoft Office or even LibreOffice. You should write a code and then compile this code to, for example, pdf. To understand how it works, just look at this online demo: https://papeeria.com/p/a37163d0-9326-4316-b5c8-a77ada5de74f#/main.tex But code didn't fear me. I am programmer, so I like that manner of work that LaTeX offers. It was not easy at start, but then I understand that I control all, I can write the very complicated document and change everything in it and nothing breaks. Lately I start generate the LaTeX documents programmatically (just generate its code and run compiler). Many people suppose that it's too difficult for everyday's tasks, maybe they are right, maybe not. But I can easily say, that it's the best tool for writing formulas, generate different documents and reports, preparing international research articles. And it's beautiful. I attached the some screenshots from my documents here (sorry, they are written in Russian)

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(Hi; I'm not a native speaker, but here are some suggestions. Hope it helps. And you're totally right: LaTeX is awesome!)
    

LaTeX

I suppose that everybody knows what Microsoft Word or LibreOffice is are. We use those products for everyday work, especially if we are students, office workers or scientists. Reports, documents, articles and etc.

When I were was a young student, I worked at a compilation of answers at to an ordinary differential equations exam. It was the a tremendous Microsoft Office's document (about one hundred pages) with an unimaginable count amount of formulas. It hangsed and crashesd every hour (I think a better expression would be 'all the time').

Today Microsoft Office is much better, than before. But in those days I thought, that I should find the an alternative for writing the complicated documents, and I found it. 

It was LaTeX.

It's difficult, it's really difficult in comparison with Microsoft Office or even LibreOffice. You should must write a code and then compile this code to into, for example, a pdf. To understand how it works, just look at this online demo:
https://papeeria.com/p/a37163d0-9326-4316-b5c8-a77ada5de74f#/main.tex

But code didn't fear scare me. I am programmer, so I like that manner of work way of working that LaTeX offers. It was not easy at start first, but then I understandstood that I control all everything, and I can could write the very complicated documents and change everything in it them and nothing would crash. Lately I started generating the LaTeX documents programmatically (just generating its code and running the compiler).

Many people suppose that it's too difficult for everyday's tasks. Maybe they are right, maybe not. But I can easily say, that it's the best tool for writing formulas, generating different documents and reports and preparing international research articles.

And it's beautiful. I attached the some screenshots from my documents here (sorry, they are written in Russian)

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Eva, same here :) I even used XeTeX (TeX typesetting engine using Unicode and supporting modern font technologies) for some of my documents.
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LaTeX is very neat once you've managed to set up a template with the right packages. In my case I'll always need to add special characters I need in my language.
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I use LaTeX, it's awesome and can be easy if you pratice, like everything that is new for you!

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