Slashdot | MS Word 2010 Takes On TeX
Just dug it from Slashdot. I've been using MS Word since I used computer apart from playing games and doing other things. It's quite handy, and admittedly I like MS Word 2003; I just can't stand the ribbon and resource-extensive features in MS Word 2007. On the other hand, LaTeX produces nice and sexy documents that make you cry in joys when you see your thesis/report/articles/whatever looks professional and....beautiful. Yes, beauty is one of the reasons why I support LaTeX.
So, now MS Word 2010 is going to deal with LaTeX? Whoah. I think that it is not gonna happen in any possible way, period. Reason?
Just dug it from Slashdot. I've been using MS Word since I used computer apart from playing games and doing other things. It's quite handy, and admittedly I like MS Word 2003; I just can't stand the ribbon and resource-extensive features in MS Word 2007. On the other hand, LaTeX produces nice and sexy documents that make you cry in joys when you see your thesis/report/articles/whatever looks professional and....beautiful. Yes, beauty is one of the reasons why I support LaTeX.
So, now MS Word 2010 is going to deal with LaTeX? Whoah. I think that it is not gonna happen in any possible way, period. Reason?
- Beauty. As mentioned above, LaTeX produces nice looking papers, MS Word doesn't. Of course you can tweak here and there to make it better to human eyes, but you can pick up LaTeX in the same amount of time, AND you don't need to do all the settings everytime.
- Resources: Yes, LaTeX and its packages may eat up lots of spaces, comparable to MS Word, but in terms of processing speed, I think that LaTeX wins here. You can just open a text file, type LaTeX text inside, save as .tex, compile, and get your PDF/PS. MS Word, on the other hand, needs long time to start up.
- Supported Platform: LaTeX runs on every major OS you can think of. MS Word doesn't.
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