Unrelatedly...

[kaberett]

... I am getting the hang of LaTeX. :-) Titlepage, abstract, sections, bibliography/references and tables (with wrapping text and multicolumn cells, no less, and I'm working on the footnotes) sorted thus far. It is a thing of joy - though awkwardly I keep catching myself trying to use LaTeX syntax in other contexts, now.

But in messing around with it, I realised why I have historically thought of most LaTeX output as fundamentally and unsettlingly ugly:

I hate serifed fonts. Especially as a wall of text.

... well done, me.

Comments

[emperor]

'tis much easier to change your document's font these days, at least!

[pseudomonas]

There is a csv2latex table-converter program out there which has made my life vastly saner.

[hairyears]

LaTe X: gum Arabic numerals together.

There was a time when LaTeX was just another word processor... The difference is, they made all the quirky clever stuff *useful*.