<p>I used MS Word 2007 throughout HS but I’ve essentially switched to LaTeX for typesetting papers and other documents. You get very professional-looking documents (especially ones containing lots of math) and LaTeX is free. The major downside is it takes awhile to learn.</p>
<p>I’ve never heard of that, but I’ll have to try it out!! I use Office 2013 right now though.</p>
<p>I use mainly google docs and MS Word for high school related stuff and LaTeX for more important stuff like work/resume stuffs</p>
<p>and i agree LaTeX looks awesome!</p>
<p>Yeah, LaTeX is pretty awesome IMO. However it is essentially a programming language. For example, to print “Hello world!” you have to type all of the following syntax:</p>
<p>\documentclass{article}</p>
<p>\begin{document}
Hello world!
\end{document}</p>
<p>However once you learn the basics, it becomes fairly simple. It’s really powerful at typesetting math expressions, for example</p>
<p>$$\int_{0}^{1} x^2 , \mathrm{d}x = \frac{1}{3}$$</p>
<p>Actually, there is a WYSIWYG editor for LaTeX. It is called LyX and it pretty much shows you how the final document will look. I use it all the time for quick documents where I don’t need to control everything.</p>
<p>Yeah, I’ve heard of LyX, I’ll have to take a look at it sometime (I currently use TeXworks).</p>
<p>I’m beginning to learn LaTeX for an online calc class I’m taking, and I agree that it’s incredibly powerful and useful for math applications. Somehow I had no idea you could use it as an Office-type editor?! I’ll have to look more into it.</p>
<p>I normally consider myself pretty up to date on tech related stuff, but I’ve never heard of LaTeX. I guess I have something to do on Sunday now</p>
<p>Yeah, basically you input your source code into a text editor, then compile it (similar to any programming language). However I’ve never used LyX, which some people have told me does the typesetting automatically.</p>
<p>I had the same feeling, in high school the only LaTeX I knew was how to typeset math expressions.</p>
<p>I use both Office and MS Word. I tend to prefer MS Word but the version on my computer doesn’t always work so I use Office most of the time.</p>