I love TeX but I would never recommend that anyone try to learn it unless they know from (a) talking at length to someone who knows it well and from (b) seeing it in action that (c) they really need it. Same applies to whatitsname in statistics and thatotherthing in programming, but discretion is the better part of revelation.
It's like my favourite text editor. I recommended it to a Stata friend who is much smarter than I am. He replied after looking at some documentation that he could see that it was a powerful editor but that he reckoned it would take weeks of using it constantly before there would be any benefit, so he would just stick with what he knew. We were both right, and it took me weeks too to feel comfortable with it, but after several years of using it almost daily I have reaped the benefit.
It's like my favourite text editor. I recommended it to a Stata friend who is much smarter than I am. He replied after looking at some documentation that he could see that it was a powerful editor but that he reckoned it would take weeks of using it constantly before there would be any benefit, so he would just stick with what he knew. We were both right, and it took me weeks too to feel comfortable with it, but after several years of using it almost daily I have reaped the benefit.
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