It works but produces pdfs. That becomes a problem. More importantly, you spend FAR more time writing documents using latex than word. The friction is enough to make writing legal stuff with it not worth the pain.
Writing long documents in Word is painful to the point that people prefer to stick to old tools like FrameMaker.
It's also painful in a different way than LaTeX. While LaTeX is complex but deterministic, Word just eludes your efforts in a way that does not build a coherent mental model but rather a loose set of fuzzy rules learned via frustration.
I deeply believe that this was by design and is in general part of Microsoft culture, creating a separation between programmers and users to make them suffer in their own ways. No wonder Bill Gates became a philanthropist in his later years. He knows better than anyone that future historians will figure out all the evil he expertly inflicted on the world.
A proper single-pane WYSIWYG editor that uses Typst under the hood would be able to stop the MSWord train by matching the features end users need.
- Small caps, no problem.
- Multilevel heading numbering, no problem
- Table of Authority, no problem
- Line numbers, no problem.
- Paragraph numbers, no problem.
- For missing features the community is more than capable of providing extensions to fill the gap. Redlining would be an example.
The first argument actually leans in favor of LaTeX or Typst as a better replacement for Docx.
A LaTeX or Typst document can contain both the content and formatting together within the same file. This isn't idiomatic for either language, and my experience is that this is more common for Typst than LaTeX, but both can do so. All of those formatting rules like small caps, table widths, margins, page numbering, etc.? Those can be rigidly defined in either LaTeX or Typst and are better guarded aginst accidental formatting rules breaches from double click, copy/paste, or table cell insertion than in Word.
I'm more sympathetic to the network effect argument. It's hard to envision a reasonable redline system compatible with both Docx and LaTeX/Typst.
>Auditors obsess over encryption at rest—from laptop FDE to databases’ security theaterish at-rest encryption—and over encryption in transit, usually meaning TLS.
Very hard to parse sentence. The monospace font means the em-dash isnt emmy enough, so I couldn't tell it apart from the hyphen on first, second, and third attempt. I wish people would put spaces around it, and to hell with what the style guide says.
The Russians are making incursions into Irish waters and airspace, it's just a brute fact. So either they play the game, or Britain plays it for them. They don't get to sit aloof above it all, that's not how reality works.
They are a protectorate in all but name, it's disgraceful.
Canada is in a similar situation. A lot of high-minded talk about peacekeeping and neutrality, but constantly benefitting from being implicitly protected by US defence policy. The real test will come if/when Russia decides to challenge Canadian arctic sovereignty.
>Doesn't crash. Doesn't throw. Just ghosts me.
>Same freeze. Same spot. Iteration 1,615. Every single time.
>It's not slow. It's not starved. It's blocked.
>The Reveal
>That's it. That's the fix. 8 hours of debugging. 2 lines changed. Hold the lock for less time. Tale as old as time.
>The Takeaways
>[the way the bulletpoint list is formatted]
pure AI slop. i'm appalled that this obvious garbage is on the frontpage. you even got the title from GPT, didn't you?
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