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Which proprietary software do you prefer over their open-source alternatives, and why? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by mayflower@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] danikpapas@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Learn to use latex

[–] SolidTux@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Yes and no. For stuff like citations: absolutely. For reviewing stuff, the mode to suggest edits in Office (or even Google Docs) is great and doesn't really have equivalent with a proper UI for LaTeX. Yes, you can use PDF comments, but then you need to change the LaTeX document manually.

[–] Sused@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago

But that's the whole point. I started exploring it and learning about it and realized that it will take more time than it's worth - by that time I completed it in Word and fixed it's own citation issues manually. I really, really want these to be better than MS Word...but they just aren't there yet.