This is going to be really unpopular but you could allow people to write their papers in Microsoft word .
Either that or the other answer would be to say that’s why you have grad students .
Either that or the other answer would be to say that’s why you have grad students .
I'd love Word if it had that one feature, disable direct formatting, to enable changing formatting only through styles.
BTW Latex with embedded Markdown is a rather pleasant combo after you have it set up properly.
For current users of LaTeX, it's dead in the water.
> other answer would be to say that’s why you have grad students .
Of which discipline?
Many journals do allow Word submissions. Nature, for example[0]
[0] "we strongly encourage you to incorporate the manuscript text and figures into a single PDF or Microsoft Word file" https://www.nature.com/nature/for-authors/initial-submission
In my field, Word is preferred for conference submissions, because the tight page limits (2-3 pages) is easier to work with in a WYSIWYG editor.