Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Of course, what that also ends up meaning is that only one program can 
> understand it.

  Basically only MS Word understands .doc files. Your point? ;)

> OTOH, HTML can be parsed and manipulated with 
> tools like XSLT by a miriad of programs...

  OTOH, HTML sucks for creating publications with good layout.

> - The end result just looks more "formal" and arguably "professional" 
> than something thrown together with Word [yet takes about the same 
> amount of effort].

  LaTeX creates superb scientifical papers by default. OTOH it's not so
well suitable for other types of publications, for which MS Word may have
ready templates. (I have a concrete example in mind, but it's quite
impossible to find such an example with google. Google only understands
words, not layout formatting... :P )

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