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Over the weekend a minor smack-talk session opened up on Twitter between Maria Andersen and about half a dozen other math people about MathType versus $latex \LaTeX ...

But $latex \LaTeX$ gets a bad rap as too complicated for normal people to use. It seems to be something people learn only in graduate school, with few undergraduates -- and even fewer high school ...