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> goes to the trouble of professional typesetting

Calling people’s use of LaTeX to type their homework “professional typesetting” seems like a stretch. Professional typesetting would be something like: send your hand-written manuscript to a full-time typesetter, and wait for them to do the work.

A better description would be “goes to the trouble of using math typesetting software designed by experts”. But is this really so strange? People use even more sophisticated software than that for making image collages of cats with mustaches, for modeling platonic solids, for adding their favorite song to a frivolous home movie, ....



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