Such as? Word hits the sweet spot of having support for all the complexity the average person may encounter/want to create.
replyLibre, Apple Pages, and Google Docs all seem like clearly worse tools in most aspects in my experience.
LaTeX is extremely powerful, but also way too complicated for the average non-HN person/person who doesn't live in complicated documents.
I almost agree. Have you tried to add an image in LaTeX that does not wander to a random page?
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And in the old compiler, I remember a problem with bounding boxes, and keeping a eps and pdf version of each image to get a correct dvi and pdf. I think this part is fixed now.
What are the "so many better alternatives"? Google Docs is pretty decent but a fair bit more basic. Proper technical authoring systems like Typst, LyX and LaTeX are way too hard for the average person. LibreOffice is much worse than MS Word.
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