Ask HN: Do people lose interest in TeX/LaTeX after leaving academia?

I didn't stop caring about good typography and typesetting, eg I edited a supercomputing trade rag for a while.

And I don't like flaky WYSIWYG editors, so have preferred (say) HTML over Word for most of my text output.

But I just didn't have cause to use LaTeX or maintain that toolchain for decades away from academia, so I didn't.

Pretty much, I only care about typography when it comes to academic papers, so that’s the issue. If I care about it in other contexts, I probably would use latex.

At this point, using "common" text processors (Word, Writer, ...) still (?) feels like torture.

what’s that about high quality typography? People generally don’t use TeX for its awesome typography. They ude TeX cause someone told them to

I wrote my diploma in LaTeX. I would use it today, after 30 years, if i had to write a long text. Word was, and still is, horrible. (i use it everyday at work)

Obviously none of my customers nor myself are writing academic papers. If we did maybe we would be using LaTeX, but the chances to have to write papers in normal companies are slim.

My partner (lawyer) didn't want to spend any time learning it as Word is the de facto in her field. So I had to either maintain also Word, or be on my own.

Testing report template consumed a lot of time to construct. I didn't have enough iterations generating reports to reap benefits from codification and git version control. Adequate Word templates on the other hand were easy to outsource for $100.

Slide decks were beautiful to me as an engineer but they didn't seem to convince the buyers (usually non-technical). I'm not super keen on presenting and the added stress from unfamiliar presentation tooling didn't help.