if you are good, you will go to heaven and use TeX
if you are bad however, you will go to hell and use TeX
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@davidgerard People have invented word processors so that people like me can write a whole doctoral thesis without needing to learn anything about TeX. Does it mean I get to go to purgatory or something?
@raphv @davidgerard Honestly, TeX is for weird STEM formulae and incantations. If you're in the humanities you'll do fine without ever formatting an equation sigil.
@haverholm @raphv or do what real scientists do: write it in MS Word and change the font to Computer Modern
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@davidgerard @haverholm @raphv And from the opposite side use something like https://ctan.org/pkg/wordlike to make LaTeX output look like Word anno 2006.
@davidgerard @haverholm @raphv Bah, you'll pry my Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) from my cold dead hands.
@davidgerard You've summoned the demon, David. Throw a D10 for damage. @raphv
@raphv @davidgerard you will be visited by three ghosts of typography and learn the true meaning of kerning
@davidgerard this is great news! it sounds like I don't have to work very hard to avoid Microsoft word. I should probably learn this tex thing