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+title: LaTeX - the word processor for engineers (and smart people too)
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+When i met [Nuno Job](http://nunojob.wordpress.com), we had a great
+time talking about technology and its future. He told me about
+[LaTeX](http://latex-project.org), a logical structure word processor.
+It allows people to write documents, books, reports, articles, you name it,
+through proper source code. This means a lot of things to me:
+
+* The code stays organized, which means the result document stays organized.
+* No templates; or in other words, one single template.
+* Want to pass the document through the network? Just a few KB instead of
+  almost 1MB...!
+
+Despite the LaTeX distribution being larger than a CD (at least for Mac OS, the
+Windows version is slightly smaller), it's worth it, especially if you're in a
+team in which everyone has to write a piece of a written delivery. I remember I
+had to spend almost two hours to format every piece into one big furball.
+Sounds kind of messy, huh?  Try gathering up a team, each one writes a piece of
+the document at their own way and then try using LaTeX. Your conclusions should
+be the same as mine. :D