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Unfortunately using something like Latex in the Real World is just no pheasible unless you're in an area specific for it. you need to share documents and you think your office secretary is going to learn how to use Latex just to edit your company wide email?

microsoft worwd is the defacto standard, no matter how i feel about foss.

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On the other hand, LaTeX should almost be a required skill for developers and dev managers. If you use it rather than M$Office, your development docs can be source controlled, easily diffed, and otherwise gain all the benefits of code! Design docs, data flow diagrams, architecture layouts, data models, &c., &c. can all be done in LaTeX will look great.

I disagree, I've been working on business-area applications for 5 years now and not once have I said to myself, "Man I wish I had some Latex knowledge to work on this document!".

It's just non-existant unless you actually need the math notations and whatnot.

Of course, if the documents don't need to be edited by their recipients, PDF is even more of a de facto standard than .doc{,x}