ISO 26300

Hmmm, a compress folder full of the .tex and the resources.

Any format can really contain malware

The former, it becomes easy and "natural" fast, as you memorize the stuff, eventually you become so used to being able to specify how the document should be specifically that using WYSIWYG stuff like word is awful, you start to fight with the document editor...

But there is stuff like overleaf if you want something less direct, it is still LaTeX but it has tools and Whatnots to do it easier.

Do you actually write all the headers and stuff

I've used Latex as my go-to tool for writing anything that needs formatting for years, and I'm not quite sure I understand what you mean?

I start off my document with a documentclass statement, which is one line..? And then I will sometimes usepackage a couple things for further document-wide formatting, but we're still talking about a small handful of lines (like 5-10 at most).

The preamble can grow quite large for big documents with a lot of specific formatting, but I have some boilerplate preambles with the most common packages lying around that I can copy-paste in. Usually however, the preamble grows as you're writing the document and you add things dynamically as you need them.

I would love to give you a better answer to your question, since my impression is that pretty much no one that swaps to Latex ever looks back, and I would love to help you learn. Feel free to expand on what you mean by "all the headers and stuff" and I'll try to give a better answer :)

I do both, but usually I use markdown to write the texts because it features basic formatting like headers and bold text, but it's faster and easier to write. Then I use pandoc to convert it into .tex and do the final editing and adjusting directly in Latex.

To be honest she probably didn't even know that the comments were only visible to Adobe product readers, but that's still infuriating as hell

Schools could have used that time they were "teaching" the Office suite to give an introduction to unix, programming, and the basics of how the internet functions. I had to read and analyze Beowulf, Shakespeare, Chaucer, and Homer and memorize the names and formulas of 33 polyatomic ions. Computing education to the same depth should have been and should be required as it was required for the other subjects.

yeah but that's fairly recent.

when i was in school in the late 90s it was all microsoft all the time. we had courses specifically on Microsoft^TM Word^TM. that sort of indoctrination isn't visible in the workplace until the people going through it are old enough to work.

A couple years ago I interned for computer support at an elementary school in NYC. Most students had Chromebooks and Gsuite, K-2nd grade had iPads. Teachers had Lenovo laptops with Windows 10 and Office365.

So does LibreOffice, but they’ve been called out multiple times for purposefully making the format overly complex to make it as hard as possible to reliable read and write to it.

Yes. I know, it's more popular than open office but I've used open office for so long now I don't want to switch.

I kinda like using Doctorow for this:

• Similar facial expression
• Works with the EFF
• Cool shades

Thanks. Sorry I should have linked to it. I kind of assumed it was common knowledge.

For anyone who is not aware: https://stallmansupport.org/