@lea Yep agree fully on all that including the false choice of latex vs word ! As a linux person I don't have access to word.. I was ranting but did use LaTeX for my thesis and a lot of papers, but do find it painful to return to when I don't use it very often. I generally get a long way with writing in markdown and converting to tex with pandoc but didn't appreciate hitting walls of errors lost in a million spurious messages on a last minute deadline.. pubpub.org shows one way forward I think although is a bit unreliable and has funding/sustainability issues