

The article has been viewed more than 240,000 times so far. Over the past few years however, the line between the tools has blurred.

In 2017, Microsoft made it possible to use LaTeX’s equation-writing syntax directly in Word, and last year it scrapped Word’s own equation editor. Other text editors also support elements of LaTeX, allowing newcomers to use as much or as little of the language as they like.

“Word is when ‘good enough’ is OK and/or I’m working with folks who need to use it.” Coding equations “For me, LaTeX is the tool when I want to get the typesetting just so,” says Casey Greene, a bioinformatician at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
