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So, LaTeX was not considered?

It is nicely editable in text editors, versionable with git, has CLI tools, has templates that can be used as-is or customized to the gills.

To top it off, it has 30 years of development and packages at its dispsosal that can solve almost every need that arises.

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For the kind of writing I've done, I have not seen LaTex offer anything that I could not get in easier ways that worked better for me.

I've never seen LaTex offer anything of value to me. So, no -- I would not use it.

People don't like LaTeX.

I work on a family of ISO standards. Started off using LaTeX 30 years ago, then Microsoft Word, currenly using a custom XML workflow, starting to transition to AsciiDoc+AsciiMath.

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