Also banned it seems. Another source.

How are they supposed to refer to a woman then? _woMAN?

WPS Office is proprietary, Chinese spyware

Thanks for this, I didn’t know that’s WPS has come to. I’ll update my answer.

I understand the context in which you’re responding. It’s a learning curve to adjust to a new writing environment that would be more apparent to students now, considering the last time they have learned about the editors they’re switching from was years ago. Since OP is compiling a list of alternatives rather than one recommended product for graduate students studying OT and psychology, there’s no harm in having LaTeX (+ editor) as one of those options. Considering the improved language support, templates, and the different editors out there for LaTeX, the barrier isn’t as steep as coding from scratch IMO. People learn, it’s not a big deal.

Sure, LyX has (had?) its quirks and isn’t bug-free, but so did Excel with parsing gene names into dates for years, leading to scientists renaming genes as a bypass until MS provided a solution in 2023.

I see mention of LaTeX, imho forget about it. It’s great but if your students already are complaining about clicking a few buttons and menus in LO Writer, I doubt they will enjoy configuring LaTeX at all as it’s really complex to setup and it’s also very, very technical. (It is also very much English focused by default, which means there will be a few more tweaks required to make it support other languages and where that turns out to be real fun is that said tweaks may vary depending the libraries you’re relying on since you install various ones and, of course, the doc will not always be reflecting that exactly.)

All good suggestions, but this part is iffy. I’ve had course instructors provide boilerplate for students so that they don’t need to worry about formatting. There are also WYSIWYG LaTeX editors like LyX. Finally, language support for LaTeX has expanded considerably over the years.

I wrote my MSc. thesis using Texmaker, and I’ve dabbled a bit with TeXstudio. I’m partial to Texmaker simply because of how easy it was to integrate bibliography and dictionaries, spin up code snippets/templates, customize build flows, debug errors, and embed different image types.

You can experiment with a few editors if you like. Ultimately, it’s the one that you feel most comfortable that will work best because the code is the same.

Happy writing!

WPS Office is the closest to the MS suite, and I believe now it’s available on both Windows and Mac.

If you’re interested in technical academic writing that supports math and robust formatting in particular, LaTeX is still the top of the line. It has a bit of a learning curve, but better for documents that require more control on formatting involving equations, images/figures, advanced paragraph forms, etc.

Edit: @Donkeywitch@lemmy.world, newer versions of WPS Office have AI + cloud integration and are exploitable. In light of this thread, I wouldn’t recommend. Thanks, @Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com.